Gone to the "Dark Side"
Well, I have given this much thought and decided I just HAD to try it. I bought 20 of the Track of the Wolf 10 ga. Parker headstamp brass shotshell hulls. I took a load that tested at 5500 psi in a plastic Cheditte hull with a Rem SP-10 wad 1 1/4 oz lead shot, backed up 2.2 gr (Longshot) to 28 gr., loaded the brass up with Lg. pistol primers, 1/8" nitro card 9 ga., 3 fiber 1/2" fillers, an OSC and a thin bead of hot glue. In theory this load should be pretty low pressure. Headed for the club with my PHE 32", barrel walls like a sewer pipe.
I fires the first two straight up, holding the gun with a single hand well above my head, no digits forward of the triggers. A satisfying bang from both barrels one after the other. Ejected the hulls and examined. They looked like spent brass hulls, nothing weird or ominous, snapped right out on the ejectors. Burned nice and clean, hot glue completely gone, report and recoil indistinguishable from the tested plastic hull loads. I then fired the other 4 rounds at clays. Other than the confetti effect of 3 filler wads, seemed to shoot just fine, broke clays (3, missed one). Interesting!
I will experiment a bit more, want to chrony the load, may back up another 1 to 1 1/2 gr. of powder depending on chrony results. My goal is to open "big duck" with a pair of brass shells in the bore.
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