Cheerios and 3/4 ounce 12ga
Cheerios, they are not just for breakfast anymore.
They make an excellent filler wad. It seems one cheerio is equal to the space of 1/8 ounce of shot.
I took my favorite target load in 12ga AA hull, Red Dot 16.5gr, Win Grey or Pink Wad, 7/8 ounce shot and then put one cheerio as a filler with the Win Grey Wad with 3 /4 ounce of 8.5's. With the pink wad two cheerios gave a perfect crimp. They worked very well on the skeet field this evening too.
Now talk about a soft recoiling load, a 3/4 ounce 12ga is very comfortable, and it stretches out a 25lb bag of shot too. I think I can go down one size on the powder bushing to about 15.7 grains of Red Dot.
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