10 gauge clays load

[Ryan Keirl]

Ok, I got all my conponents except red dot. Hopefully, my wife will pick some up at scheels if they have it in stock tomorrow. I weighed out 1 1/8 oz of 7.5 shot. I put the 16 gauge 1/2" fiber wad in first and the shot would spill over the top of the SP10. When I go to actually load acouple of these, should I put the fiber wad under still and just let the shot be contained by the hull or shot first and thrn the wad under crimp?

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Ryan Keirl

Ok, I got all my conponents except red dot. Hopefully, my wife will pick some up at scheels if they have it in stock tomorrow. I weighed out 1 1/8 oz of 7.5 shot. I put the 16 gauge 1/2" fiber wad in first and the shot would spill over the top of the SP10. When I go to actually load acouple of these, should I put the fiber wad under still and just let the shot be contained by the hull or shot first and thrn the wad under crimp?

I would not worry about shot being over the shot cup of the SP10 wad as long as the overall height is correct for a good crimp. These old guns were built and shot long before the plastic shot cup had been invented. In the old days the entire shot column was in contact with the bore. Using 1 1/8 ounce loads and the SP10 with that 1/2 filler wad my Parker will pattern in the high 80 percentile and my Remington 1894 in the low 90 percentile. The small amount of shot not in the cup won't matter.

[Michael Watson]

Originally Posted by Ryan Keirl

Ok, I got all my conponents except red dot. Hopefully, my wife will pick some up at scheels if they have it in stock tomorrow. I weighed out 1 1/8 oz of 7.5 shot. I put the 16 gauge 1/2" fiber wad in first and the shot would spill over the top of the SP10. When I go to actually load acouple of these, should I put the fiber wad under still and just let the shot be contained by the hull or shot first and thrn the wad under crimp?

If you want a tight pattern, put the fiber wads in first. If you want a wider pattern put the shot in first. The fiber wads act like a spreader wad. These are the results that I've seen with my reloads in my gun. Load a couple of each and see what your gun likes.

[William Davis]

I am with Paul on the Fiber Cushion Wad split in half and loading the plastic wad first then adding the fiber wad as a 2nd step.

With 1/2 inch Fiber wads you can adjust the stack height to suit your load. If using a Mec 600 set the wad pressure to compress it some. They have some spring to them, if the stack height is just a bit too high, shot over the wad edge, they will compress some on crimping. Shell is fired they compress even more so no shot touches the barrel.

I have a 10 load that uses 2/3 of a 1/2 inch 16 G fiber. Take all the 1/3 remainders pair them up and load them just like they were a full 2/3 cut.

Over shot for spreaders I use a Polywad 12 G spreader disk, yellow one with the post. It loads and spreads very well in the 10 G shell.

William