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07-10-2024, 01:05 PM | #3 | ||||||
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I have gone through about a pound of it recently. It's a very fine grain powder and I thought there would be some leakage on a MEC single stage. With the MEC brass washer under the rubber grommet and the powder bottle screwed on very tight I haven't experienced much leakage at all. For 7/8 12ga loads the Claybuster grey wad gives good crimps in the Winchester AAHS hull. In the older AA Compression Formed hulls I have to use the Claybuster 3/4 ounce wad for a proper crimp. I am using a #16 MEC bushing and it's throwing 14.7 grains of PP.
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07-10-2024, 08:10 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Thanks J.B. I'm using same bushing with basic same weigh in. I also had no leakage issues, even with bottle just snugged so as to allow bar to travel more easily. My next trial batch was going to be with those gray wads also as I love my titewad loads with them. Thanks for the input. Mattly.
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07-10-2024, 08:20 PM | #5 | ||||||
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At the present time all powder is quite scarce, Perfect Pattern is probably the most widely available but usually I find only one pound bottles when I see it. It is proving to be a good powder for light 12ga loads and when velocity is kept to 1200 fps or less it gives low pressure. It's also quite a bit less expensive than the old favorites of mine from Alliant, and who knows if Alliant will ever resume production.
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08-02-2024, 07:40 AM | #6 | ||||||
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Many of my regular shooting friends (modern guns) have gone to Hodgdon's Perfect Pattern and High Gun powders for 7/8 and 1-ounce loads respectively in 2-3/4”/12-gauge They're loading to 1200-1250 speed but it's easy to drop a powder bushing number - or two or three - for increasingly lower velocity/recoil loads. Stack height is a consideration with both low volume and high energy powders, and an expedient as Pete mentioned is to use a wad made for a lighter payload, i.e., 3/4 ounce wad for 7/8 ounce load, etc. Alternately a shot cup filler can be used but that's one more step to complicate things while frequent shooters are loading in volume and especially so on a MEC progressive press.
Perfect Pattern and High Gun are more readily available and it seems that the old standbys like Red Dot, 700-X, Clays, Clay Dot, American Select, etc are far on the way out. I suspect Hodgdon is simplifying its distribution/sales by contracting for fewer shotgun powders; and it remains to be seen if Alliant will ever get back in gear insofar as shotgun powders. What a sad chapter for its forerunner Hercules that many of us grew up with. |
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08-03-2024, 09:40 AM | #7 | ||||||
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Well, now you guys have done it, I might have to work up some 8g loads and send them to Tom for testing.
It's burn rate is right there with E3 and Nitro 100 NF so it should be a viable powder for the big gun. |
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