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06-16-2022, 06:40 PM
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20 gauge Red Dot loads
Since some Red Dot recently became available and powder is scarce I thought I would share these recipes from the 1995 Alliant Reloading Guide. I am not sure why Alliant stopped publishing Red Dot 20ga recipes, I have read that it has to do with the tube sets many Skeet shooter use but the pressures listed seem to be what I would expect from factory loads. For comparison I looked at a 12ga 7/8 and a 1 ounce recipes in the AA hull using the same components and the same amount of Red Dot in both the 1995 reloading guide and in the current Alliant on-line reloading guide. They gave identical velocity and pressure, so I don't think there has been any change to the powder that would affect pressure. (Note: some of the loads show a Federal 209 primer. That is not the same as the Federal 209A primer. The 209A is a magnum/hotter primer and higher pressures would be expected with it's use).
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I’ve got a bunch of Red Dot and have 10 , 12 gauge loads that are fine and I have been fine tuning a Red Dot 16 load with the data from an old IMR manual you gave me . But I was rather fortunate last week and picked up a big pile of 800X . Seems they’ve got 12-16 and 20 data for the normal weight loads on each gauge . I suppose before the summers out I’ll try atleast a box of each using 800X
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