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Originally Posted by MIKE FISHER
Good point, Milton. I've actually been thinking about starting to reload bismuth, but I'm sort of an "indifferent" reloader. By that I mean that I hate to readjust my press and so for the last many years I've only reloaded AA's (plus I like them, altho I like working w/the old AA's WAY more than the new!). I [I]really[I] don't want to "complicate" my life by adding a bunch of different components, altho if commercial vintage bismuth availability doesn't improve, I may have to compromise my simplicity! I am considering the few bismuth recipes available for AA's, altho as you know there aren't many; and a bigger problem for me is that they tend to be hotter than the RST Nice Shot loads and I like to keep the pressure low in our (wife & I) vintagers.
I'm setup for reloading vintage pressures for lead, so I'm OK there, altho my wife doesn't want to shoot lead except at the skeet range. In the past her shooting was limited enough that I could keep up w/here thru RST, but that's fast coming to a close.
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I know what you mean by keeping things simple, same reason I havnt bought a vintage 16 ga double Im already reloading for 2 "obsolete" gauges adding a 3rd to the mix starts to sound like work
. Roll crimping may bring pressures down on those published bismuth loads, you can always have Precision Reloading pressure test them if you wanted to go that route. A straight walled hull should generate lower pressures as well but im not familiar with the AAs or their design. Another option would be to get some gauge adapters 20 to 28 ga and run the Boss Bismuth they in theory should produce less pressure in the bigger 20 gauge bore.