Spacers

[6pt-Sika]

Andrew Sacco started a thread on here earlier about the use of beans as for lack of a better term a spacer . I read it and then proceded to state what I used for the same thing . About a month after that I was in the grocery store and bought a bag of the small red beans think they were less than a dollar . Anyway the stayed in my desk drawer at the shop , I had planned to try them in my 10 gauge loads at some point . Well earlier this week I ran out of 16 and 20 gauge 1/8' nitro cards so not wanting to stop until I loaded all my 10 gauge empties I pressed the red beans into service .

Initially my 1 1/4 ounce SR7625 load had one 1/8" nitro card in the bottom of the shotcup and I'd put a 10 gauge overshot card over the shot so my crimp was nice a flat . I'm quite anal about not wanting a concave or sunken crimp .

Anyway I tried putting 3 , 4 and 5 beans in the bottom of the shotcup and four in my loads gives me a very very nice flat closed crimp and no over shot card needed .