Short Tens (At last!)

[charlie cleveland]

i also finally made some improvements with my loading the short ten...my son made me a hull cutter just like the one you boys have made out of a wood dowel and a exacto blade..than thing is far better than my sharp case knife..thanks to milton starr who sent me 48 hulls i now have 47 loaded up with 25 grains blue dot and a 1 1/8 ounce load of 7 1/2 s lead for those doves come sept....now have a hard decision to make to either shoot a smith 10 ga with 32inch barrels and super tight chokes or the d grade parker with 30 inch modified both barrels.. will probably try both of them... i shot several of my loads at mydr pepper cans and 30 inch card board targets at 40 steps...everthing looked good on paper used a haMMER 10 CLABROUGH BROTHERS GUN FOR TESTING..its the lighest 10 ive got at 8 3/4 lbs i need to boorrow one of murphys light 10 s at about7 lbs... roll crimped some of my loads they never kicked a bit and sounded good...but most of them i star crimped them..gun kicked a little and the bang was a little louder and the powder burned a little cleaner with the star crimp...used the 8 ga roll crimper on the 10 ga hulls but it does not make pretty rolls got to invest in a 10 ga roll crimper now... charlie