Heat treating shot success

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

Milton, you'll have your Ph.D. in shotology before you know it. I assume you buffer those loads you're cooking up? And your shot cup provides some protection to your barrels?

Anxious to see what kind of patterns those heat treated pellets give. Keep us posted.

I had a chart around here somewhere the other day that showed the different hardness of various shot types and various barrel materials from damascus up to modern steels. Even extremely hard lead shot is many times softer than damascus. I do have some homemade shotcups that completely encapsulates the shot which the Remington 8 ga wads do not but they werent designed to so cant fault them for that. I got some more stuff on the way I ordered something for the 8 gauge which I havnt seen anyone else here use so hopefully they will ship them and see. I havnt used any buffer yet I plan to at some point getting PR to test some buffered loads maybe. One benefit I could see with buffer no one ever mentions, when you're loading large pellets with a roll crimp the over shot card can get a bit catawampus buffer would give you a more even surface for the OS to sit on. Although with the shotcups I made the OS sits flushs on top of them so when I roll crimp them I get a really nice even crimp and it seals the OS on top of the shotcup.