8300 PSI TOO MUCH FOR 10 GA TWIST

[charlie cleveland]

remember buckshot will not pattern like small shot...if all the buckshot is staying within a 15 to 24 inch circle at 40 yards your gun is doing its job and the shell you loaded...there will be ragged patterns in all buckshot loads...if the pattern is looking like a rifle hole or not spreading out at 40 yards the trouble is that if your using a over shot card and its goingdown in theshot collar this will not let the buckshot spread out....ive done this a number of times tilled i figured out the problem....ive shot the load your using a no of times in a p grade 10 ga with twist steel barrels with no effects on gun....good luck on the deer hunt with the old ten....... charlie

[J. A. EARLY]

I'll measure in front of the chambers soon, but it is on a #3 frame and as the barrels are .040 r and .050 l at their thinnest spots anywhere I am betting they are very thick there.

I'm looking at another load and there is one for 1 5/8 oz. using SR4756 but only 7100 psi for 1121 fps.

But could someone tell me what "x10 x 2 1/4" filler MR" means for a wad on Bell's chart? There is nothing there to tell me what that is.

Thanks,

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow

I'm looking at another load and there is one for 1 5/8 oz. using SR4756 but only 7100 psi for 1121 fps.

It has been my experience that SR4756 is a powder that will break your heart when used in the 2 7/8" 10ga. For me it produced far too many squib/blooper loads and they always seem to come when shooting at a bird. I have had much better results with SR7625 but as yet neither Scott K. or myself have found a totally 100% squib/blooper free powder for a hunting load. SR4756 is the worst powder to use when the shooting counts IMO.

[David Lien]

Any air, or looseness in the powder will squib/blooper every time with 4756 in a ten gauge hand load. Have had the broken heart.
David

[J. A. EARLY]

Thanks for the info on the bloopers. That is the last thing I want as I am loading for late season deer and then turkeys in April. Maybe I'll just back down to a powder I know to be 100% reliable with the 1 1/4 oz. loads. But it would be nice to take advantage of the 10 for loads heavier than what I can shoot in a 12.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow

Thanks for the info on the bloopers. That is the last thing I want as I am loading for late season deer and then turkeys in April. Maybe I'll just back down to a powder I know to be 100% reliable with the 1 1/4 oz. loads. But it would be nice to take advantage of the 10 for loads heavier than what I can shoot in a 12.

I would like know what powder you have found to be 100& reliable with 1.25 ounce loads in the short ten.

I used to think more was better too. The average 10 bore's performance with 1.25 ounce payload is noticably more effective than the average 12 bore on both clay and game in my experience.

[J. A. EARLY]

[QUOTE=Pete Lester;57662]I would like know what powder you have found to be 100& reliable with 1.25 ounce loads in the short ten.


Pete,

I am thinking along the lines that David did, either with Green Dot or Unique. In 1.25 ounce loads in 12 I have never had anything but good results, so I am sure a call to Alliant powders will produce a load in 10 that will not cause bloopers. But that is why I am asking. In the spring it will not be cold but it is now so I don't want any failures when a buck or even a lowly doe runs by in front of the dogs.