10 ga Turkey Loads?

[10 bore]

Originally Posted by Pete Lester

Why not reload? Well for one it's fun as well as economical. More importantly it is the only way to develop specific loads that will allow a gun to shoot to it's full potential. Sometimes a change in shot weight, size, powder, hull etc can produce amazing changes with patterns increasing and decreasing in density by 20% or more with only a small change in the recipe.

yes my shoulder still hurts from my testing i did find things just as pete stated, like 1 5/8 ths oz 6's shot 75% , 1 1/2 oz 6's 86 % , 1 3/8 ths 6's 82 % than i tryed a win hull and it opened up even more. rolled crimp better pattern than star crimp(that is why i rolled crimped my loads from Bell's chart on the 1 1/2 oz loads) and yes i load 100% of my shells for above reasons and it is nice to hunt with and old gun and your own shells! scott