Wads and spacers for a short 10 load

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by Keith Doty

I have used the clear plastic overshot cards in 12 ga, work great, can at a glance tell shot size 7 or 8 from 5 or larger. Downside is the plastic litter although have never found a piece big enough to identify. Have not seen them in 10 ga.
I tried some 16 ga x 1/2" fiber wads (untreated) under a shot column in the 10 ga. w/ 1 1/4 oz They didn't "poof" but didn't sound and feel like a full charge round and burned very dirty. Same fiber wad IN the shot cup worked well, got me the same shot height for crimp, burned much cleaner. Have to think the result was a very low pressure round, too low to fully burn the powder. Shot both outta my Ithaca Mag 10 for test purposes, neither would fully operate mechanism, no surprise there.

All the 1100 fps RST loads I have shot are extremely dirty however the 1250fps bismuth load was alot cleaner. Not sure what the pressure difference would be between a 1 1/4 oz at 1100 vs 1250 fps. Their bismuth load was listed as 1 3/8oz but when they started running out of supplies they went to a 1 1/4 which is what I have. I need to look at the load data and see if theres a handload in there that is similar to that.

[6pt-Sika]

I’m loading 10 gauge 1 1/4 #7 1/2’s for the summer planting at Rock Mountain , hopefully they’ll provide a good red bean crop

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

I’m loading 10 gauge 1 1/4 #7 1/2’s for the summer planting at Rock Mountain , hopefully they’ll provide a good red bean crop

Looks like you're loading the olive Remington hulls ?

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Milton C Starr

Looks like you're loading the olive Remington hulls ?

Remington and red RST’s .

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

Remington and red RST’s .

I had placed a order with BPI last week since they had the Cheddites listed as in stock but my order was canceled 2 days ago for whatever reason. I wanted to load up about 50 dove loads for the 10 ga. At least my order from Precision came in.

[6pt-Sika]

RST’s and REM’s same exact load in both . Both look decent both go boom both break or kill birds .

[Milton C Starr]

I used to shoot the Remington ones about 10yrs ago when I had mostly 3.5" 10 gauges used alot of the 2 1/4oz #4 loads for squirrels. Just never see the hulls show up on the reloading market. I will probably ended up getting some Federal hulls to load according to alot of the 10 ga loaders its the best hull if you can buy them.

[charlie cleveland]

nice stuff I really liked the 2 1/4 ounce 10 ga loads squirls did not run off with this load....and a lot of turkeys was took with this load I still have a few boxes squirled away....charlie

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

nice stuff I really liked the 2 1/4 ounce 10 ga loads squirls did not run off with this load....and a lot of turkeys was took with this load I still have a few boxes squirled away....charlie

Remington still makes this load Part # 24395 but I dont have any 3.5" guns anymore. Good thing about that load if theres a squirrel on a branch but you cant quite see him you can just blow the branch off the tree works pretty good usually stuns them after they hit the ground. My short 10s pattern lead 4s pretty good though even with only 1 1/4oz of shot.

[charlie cleveland]

the 1 1/4 ounce 10 ga load is a favorite of mine...when I was a kid my dad had went to oaklahoma and bought several cases of these old 1 1/4 loads I shot a lot of them up at ducks and crows and even have a box or so I have saved....many old cheap loose 10 ga guns have I fired this load in....I still load this old round from time to time even have the old 57 Remington primers.....charlie