black powder shotshell reloading

[Matt Buckley]

Victor,
You should be just fine with regular Cheddite 209 primers. They will ignite without any problems and when you go to magnum primers you are raising the pressure which I am assuming is what you are trying to avoid with using bp loads. 16 gauge cards and wads are what you want in a 16 plastic hull. If you were using brass hulls then you would probably go up to 17. I generally use FFg in 12 and 16. FFFg may raise the pressure some. I just use an old bp/shot dipper for measuring. If you want to get more precise than that weight it out on a scale, but the dipper is close enough for me.

[Mike of the Mountain]

I use an old dipper for BP and shot. The little bit of imperfection in the BP charge won’t matter. It’s not like an extra 2-3 grains + or - of smokeless. I use fiber and card and paper hulls. Plastic wads and hulls make for a messy barrel. I use FFg buy in a pinch I’d use FFFG or Fg.

[ArtS]

Just a comment. The 16 wads are correct for the plastic hulls. If you load brass, you do go "up" in wads, but up is a 15ga, not 17. The Parker stamped brass cases generally load better by going up one size. I haven't loaded any in a little while, but the manufacturer recommendation and that of suppliers is to use 14 ga for OP and Cushion and 13 gauge for the overshotwhen loading MagTech. I have tried them and they give perfect loads. Glue in the overshot.

[Victor Wasylyna]

Originally Posted by Matt Buckley

16 gauge cards and wads are what you want in a 16 plastic hull.

Originally Posted by Arthur Shaffer

Just a comment. The 16 wads are correct for the plastic hulls.

Very convenient ... and efficient!

I already use 16 ga wads (and sometimes cards) for my “short ten” reloading.

It may not take much to get into black powder reloading for the 16 gauge.

-Victor