10 gauge clays load

[Michael Watson]

Originally Posted by Ryan Keirl

Ok, I got all my conponents except red dot. Hopefully, my wife will pick some up at scheels if they have it in stock tomorrow. I weighed out 1 1/8 oz of 7.5 shot. I put the 16 gauge 1/2" fiber wad in first and the shot would spill over the top of the SP10. When I go to actually load acouple of these, should I put the fiber wad under still and just let the shot be contained by the hull or shot first and thrn the wad under crimp?

If you want a tight pattern, put the fiber wads in first. If you want a wider pattern put the shot in first. The fiber wads act like a spreader wad. These are the results that I've seen with my reloads in my gun. Load a couple of each and see what your gun likes.

[William Davis]

I am with Paul on the Fiber Cushion Wad split in half and loading the plastic wad first then adding the fiber wad as a 2nd step.

With 1/2 inch Fiber wads you can adjust the stack height to suit your load. If using a Mec 600 set the wad pressure to compress it some. They have some spring to them, if the stack height is just a bit too high, shot over the wad edge, they will compress some on crimping. Shell is fired they compress even more so no shot touches the barrel.

I have a 10 load that uses 2/3 of a 1/2 inch 16 G fiber. Take all the 1/3 remainders pair them up and load them just like they were a full 2/3 cut.

Over shot for spreaders I use a Polywad 12 G spreader disk, yellow one with the post. It loads and spreads very well in the 10 G shell.

William