Light loads

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

The Hodgdon reloading site has plenty of great info, and would be the first place I'd look.Just Google Hodgdon reloading site. BTW, I assume you're looking for 12 ga?

I spent a couple hours on that site looking loads with the powders I have and the primers , hulls

The only thing I have that is not on the loads is the wads

The wads I have are claybusters in 1 1/8 and 1 1/4
Now I did find some light loads with that amount of shot , but in different wads , they used GU 1225

Is it ok to switch out wads for what I have and it shouldn’t change the pressure much ,
Or should I just try to find those GU1225 wads


Also
I have another bag of wads made by ballistic products, they called 12 gauge target & light field loads
I’m thinking they for 1 ounce loads of shot

Thanks for the help , I’m getting excited about learning this , only wish it was easy to find new bulls and stuff , getting hard up here in Canada to find it

[Mike of the Mountain]

Get yourself a 1 oz and a 7/8 oz charge bar. You can make light loads with 1 and 7/8 oz recipes. Keep the FPS under 1200 and you'll be happy. Velocity and load weight are what cause felt recoil so keep the velocity down. I prefer 1150-1180 FPS. They break anything that a 1250-1300 FPS load can break. I noticed you originally said you had #6 and #7 1/2 shot. If you're loading for clays you can't use anything larger than 7 1/2. It's a safety factor.