Short 10 and Red Dot.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Eric Johanen

I shot the clays course this morning with both Cheddite hulls and Federal hulls loaded with 19 grains of Red Dot, SP10 wad with a 1/2 inch 16 ga. fiber insert, 1&1/8 oz shot finished with a 6 fold crimp. Excellent results! I will be using these loads as standard for clays in my Greener. I can save the SR 7625 for my low pressure 12 qa. and 16 ga. loads. I'll go to larger size shot for field use. Thank's to whoever dreamed this load up!! The Greener will get much more use now that I can load for it rather than purchase more expensive factory loads.

That load works great. You mentioned in a previous post about sending it out for testing, did you ever do that?

[Eric Johanen]

I have not done that yet. I've read in other postings that Tom shuts down in the late fall/winter and resumes testing service in spring. I will contact him and send the load off for testing using Cheddite, Federal and Remington hulls. I am interested in data using all 3 hulls. Nice thing about this load is I can use the hulls several times and then get one last hurrah with black powder before tossing them in the barrel. Ran a score of 40 today. 1 bad gun mount, 4 clays shot over and 5 just plain misses. ( I do tend to shoot a different gun almost every time out. They all want their turn!)

[Bill Murphy]

You don't need Armbrust to attest to the safety of that load, as long as it sounds loud enough. However, the difference in the three hulls may be an interesting test. My guess as to pressure is about 7000 psi max.

[Eric Johanen]

Thank's Bill. If they come in 7000 to 7500 psi I'll be real happy. I do want to know psi with these 3 hulls as they are the most common hulls available to reloaders. The Red Dot load is very clean shooting. Just finished clean up after 100+ shots and like what I see. Since it was improved a number of years ago it is very clean. I used the powder years ago for trap and it was a little sooty, not anymore. I do not think it will prove to be punky in cold weather like SR 7625.