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Originally Posted by Richard Mason
It’s been awhile since I’ve been this excited about loading and hunting upland again
My MEC press will be here and I can’t learn it all fast enough
I was wondering
Can you load them brass hulls or cases with todays powders instead of the black powder
They sell them in 2 1/2 inches and would be perfect
I was think about buy 50 to start
Just not sure about loading them with todays powder , I was going to get some stuff from that site track the wolf
If load them by hand with the dippers in 1 ounce for shot and get the right one for powders
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Dick,
I am not real sure what you would like to load.
12 gauge it looks like. How much lead shot? 3/4. 7/8, 1 or 1 1/8 ounce?
Brass hulls? Not sure if most plastic wads available today would fit real well in a thinner walled brass hull.
I think best to use what is commonly available today in plastic wads for plastic hulls. For a 12 gauge Parker in good shape, 2 3/4 inch hulls will be fine.
I'm sure any 209 shotshell primers would be OK.
What powder do you intend to use? The amount of lead shot will be a factor.
Take your time and be certain of what your goal will be. Loading recipes on powder manufacturers web sites have a lot of data. Check them out.
Once you decide on what weight shot you want to load and what powder you would like to use, and available, please get back to us and we can give you more details if you need them.
Yeah, get something loaded up for your Parker - and shoot it.
In the meantime if that might be too long to wait, get some factory loaded low pressure loads, like RST.
Bill