I agree with Charlie. I loaded some pheasant low pressure loads tailored for my LC Smith grade 3 for a hunt a few weeks ago with 1 1/8” of #5 shot, IMR 7625 and WW hulls. A few people commented before the hunt, “So you are going to shoot with Chain Damascus barrels huh?” I just nodded and noticed a few eyebrows as they walked away. Anyhow, I had a great time and at the end of the day I ended up bagging five roosters and I still have all my fingers!
Having been reloading smokeless for a while, I recently just starting reloading black powder. I got all my supplies from Ballistics Products which Paul has for a link in the previous post. Now….if you really want to get a huge reaction on the skeet or trap field, you have to try shooting black powder. Skeet field, station one, high house, open breach and load, pull back the hammers, and yell pull! The look on the faces and the reaction of the unsuspecting that a black powder cartridge is going to touch off is priceless. The big BOOM and SMOKE never gets old… It is a lot of fun!
Time to end this post because now I’m off to the big bore range to dial in and test accuracy the different bullet seating depths of my 30-06 hand loads for a deer hunt in November….
Best,
Frank
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