The Short 8 Gauge

[Ed Blake]

I recently bought 300 hulls from Joe Plante in Alberta. Because he cuts the crimp off to salvage the shot the hull ends up at 23/4” long vs the standard 31/8”. I used one of the recently published loads from the PP, omitting the 1/2” fiber wad. The load is 26.5 gns Clay Dot under a BPI wad and 1.5 ounces shot. Stack height is about perfect minus the fiber wad as you can see from the pictures below. I have not shot these yet, should they be tested? It’s a tested load with the excepting no fiber wad and a shorter hull.