who can explain this
today ithought of something that i had read about years ago.do not recall fellas name that said this but i do recall what he said.he said that the perfect shotgun load would be a 6 ga. gun shooting a 1 ounce load. well i do not have a 6 ga gun but i do have a 8 ga.so i thoght i try his load. i used awinchester hull 209primer winchester brand. 30 grains of blue dot powder. 1 ounce lead no.7 1 /2 shot. wad used was gelespi italian name brand. with 1 /8 inch card over shot. some times used 1 /2 inch filler wad over shot.no glue or any thing over shot wads. no misfires occurred during test. no of shots fired were 36.the range was 40 yards at 30 inch circle. the first 10 loads fired was unbeliveable. every shot wasin at least a 1 i/2 inch circle.i know every body will laugh. i try to figure this out i thought maybe the shot card was going up into the plastic waddingonly problem the gellispi wad only holds 7 /8 ounce shot. i even steped up the shot loads to 1 18 ounce. then 1 14 then 1 1/2 then 1 5/8ounces.all the loads were loaded to same way except for the differant amounts of lead.all the loads still shot as thou they were slug loads. on the 1 5/8 ounce load 1 out of 4 loads scattered some rest of loads in the same hole. the only way i could make a load scatter was to cut the part off the plastic wadding.that held the shot. keep in mind that wadding will onlw hold 7/8 ounce shot.what is making these loads stay packed together and not spread out has got me puzzled. i shot till dark trying differant loads and still shooting like a slug load0.maybe that fella was right a 1 ounce load and a 6 ga. is the perfect load. his probably wouldnot scatter either. what do yall think is making this load shoot like a slug. charlie
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