28 gauge

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Originally Posted by Dean Romig

I was thinking a higher velocity (without increading the pressure too much) would improve penetration.... but I don't know how it would affect accuracy.
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Well we’ll see I loaded six with 16 grains of W572 and six with 14 grains of SR7625 , these are the same powder charges I used with 3/4-7/8 ounce loads of buckshot . The Claybuster AA-HS wads are tight at the base going thru the chokes . The slug alone rattled thru the barrel and at the front end of the shot cup it seems snug but not overly tight . To keep it at the top I needed to put two 1/8” 410 card wads in the bottom of the shot cup and of course I filled the hollow base with hot melt glue to keep the 410 wads and or the bottom of the shot cup from sticking in the hollow base . Same protocol I follow in the other gauges with these Lyman style pellet slugs .

On the velocity pentration issue I personally feel 1200 or 100 or so less should be fine as I'll most likely not shoot at a deer over thirty yards provided of course that they make some semblance of a decent group . I'll try then at 25 yards and if satisfied I'll try them at 50 so I know and if they do well at 50 I might stretch the range out to 35 or 40 yards but that's about it . I'm actually hoping one barrel does very well with the slugs and a good POI vs POA and then have the #1 or #2 buckshot in the other barrel . Ideally I've gotten so I like the slug in the right barrel and buckshot in the left . But it doesn't always work that way , just recently the top lever grade 1 10 gauge 2 barrel set with the 26" barrel seems to like buckshot better in the right barrel and the slug I'm messing with for the 10 better in the left barrel . So it ain't always the same by any means . But this stuff gives me a reason to keep waging war so to speak against the "Man Eating Whitetail of the Old Dominion" . I suspect I could live to be 287 and if still able to get up a tree yadda yadda yadda I'd still have plenty other stuff I wanted to try .

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Shot twelve rounds of slugs today six with W572 and six with SR7625 . The best at 25 yards was the right barrel with SR7625 .

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The W572 both were shot on same box at different times .

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Need to shoot some more buck pushed with W572 and SR7625 to decide which will be in the left barrel . Then try and kill a deer with this thing this season .

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No one came in the shop “overly” bothering me and I just got finished up ! Twenty five of each buckshot and the slug load DONE !