Kirk, Hodgdons doesn't list Longshot for anything lighter than 1 1/8oz. It's 58 on the burn rate chart. Titewad, Clays, Promo, Red Dot, Clay Dot, 700X, American Select, and Green Dot all in the top 20. Powder companies have different powders for different applications, a faster burning powder for light loads. It's nice you took the time and expense to have the shells tested with Longshot, but I think there's many powders more suited to light loads that will burn clean even in the cold weather. Also, 5000psi isn't necessary for our old guns. Probably anything under 8000psi would be safe in any good barrel. And the higher pressures [ 8000 ] aren't going to crack the stock, that would have more to do with pay load. A 1oz load or less at 1200fps would be a low recoil load. Because I shoot just clay birds, all my loads are 3/4oz at around 1300fps for a clean burn and to help get the pattern to open up a bit. I think if you contact the powder companies they will send you a reloading booklet. Then it's easy to compare different loads. I got mine at the state trap shoot from a distributor.
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