8 gauge all ready to go.

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

One of the last couple times I hunted the Blackwater for Sika during the gun season I carried my little Savage 220 bolt action rifled 20 gauge AND a Parker Grade 2 top lever 10 gauge in case they came by within 30 or so yards . Luckily that trip I was within a couple hundred yards of the truck and had a game cart for tree stand removal etc .

Interesting that you chose to carry a slug gun in that marsh as in that county you can use a rifle. You can see a long way in those marshes and a target could appear from 50-200yds.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

Interesting that you chose to carry a slug gun in that marsh as in that county you can use a rifle. You can see a long way in those marshes and a target could appear from 50-200yds.

Not on the Blackwater ! NWR gun regs are shotgun ML and I think handgun now . Dorchester county is rifle but not the refuge .

[6pt-Sika]

At the present I’ve got 25 new hulls and 25 already fired hulls . So I loaded one of each . Loaded a fired one first , only problem was getting it out of the depriming sizer station next time I’ll use Imperial Sizing die wax on the brass .

[6pt-Sika]

Also loaded three with 0000 buckshot . Tried the first without buffer and then two with buffer . Ten of the 0000 buck pushed by 31 grains of Clays . In the two buffered I also put an overshot card just to try and keep the buffer from sifting out the tiny hole in the middle of the crimp .