Old Reloading Manuals - 2 7/8" 10ga recipes

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Pete Lester

57 and 157 primers can still be found. People occasionally turn them in for credit at the Kittery Trading Post and they resell them from their "junk" bin.

Do you have any old reloading manuals laying around with short ten recipes?

No the only thing I have with 2 7/8" loads is the BPI 10 gauge manual and their buckshot manual . And to be honest I don't use any of the loads they have listed .

[6pt-Sika]

To be totally honest I only have two loads !

The one I use , which I got from Reloader Magazine a few years back when Ross Seyfried did an article on his favourite loads . And it just so happened he has or had a W.&C. Scott 10 gauge with damascus and hammerless just like mine . So I use his load for 1 1/4 ounces of shot for just about everything !

It works out pretty well as I can load 1 1/4 ounces of whatever shot I want inside a SP-10 wad with a 16 gauge 1/4" fiber wad in the bottom of the shot cup and a .135" 10 gauge card wad above the shot . Pushed with 30 grains od SR7625 and lit with a CCI209 .
I can also leave out the birdshot , 16 gauge wad and the card and put twelve 00 Buck pellets for pretty much the same thing !

I have another load writtin down in my loading room somewhere for a 1 1/2 Ounce of shot in the SP-10 , a .135" card wad , Universal Clays and a CCI209 . Don't remmember how much of that off the top of my head . But to be honest I'm quite satisfied with the load I'm using at 1 1/4 ounces . And hopefully I can come up with a decent roundball that will fit inside the SP-10 and be safe in my old damascus gun !