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Originally Posted by chris dawe
Hi fellas ,I just finished up my big Greener and was wondering if anyone has any experience the 2 5/8 chamber ?
I have new Remington green hulls on hand,
CCI and Win 209 primers
SR 4756 powder
and BPI multi-metal wads
Thanks for any help
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Loading the Short Ten is made more complicated when components are difficult to obtain. Data is limited. With regards to your post I have a few thoughts and some questions.
First what are you trying to do with the load, for ducks or geese, decoy or pass shooting with bismuth? Or is this a game load with lead shot?
Remington green hulls are hard to place on the Sherman Bell data because he references black letter, white letter and OS. The new empty Remington hulls are devoid of any such markings. I
think they are black letter from comparison, anyone else have experience with the ID of this hull?
I have used 4756 but don't any more, especially with loads in the 1 1/4 and 1 3/8 ounce range, it will break your heart. It's not if but when you will have a squib load. It will most likely happen when you are shooting at game. Been there done that.
The SP10 was is about the best wad to use when shooting lead and bismuth. Although Precision reloading won't ship to Canada. Can a friend in the US ship them to you? You really want to get some of these wads if you are going to reload a short ten.
The old tens are usually tightly choked and throw very dense patterns, because of that you will find they perform really well on game with what are considered light loads. 1 1/4 ounce of bismuth is very effective out to 50 yards if you are using the right shot size. A 1 1/4 ounce of lead out of good full choke will drop a crow as far as most people can shoot, 60 to 65 yards is not exaggerating. Pattern the gun, you may find 1 3/8 very satisfactory for Turkey's. I have found there is no need for the punishing recoil a 1 5/8 load will generate.
I loaded a bunch of 1 1/4 ounce bismuth #1 in the Remington hull for a snow goose hunt last year and I have a bunch of leftovers. This year and last I have been using them on decoying Canada's. They are folding the birds hard in the 30 to 35 yard range. I used 31 grains of 7625 and Win 209 primer, SP10 wad, a sliver of a cheerio for filler and 6 point crimp. They work great.