Reloading weekend

[OLD and GRUMPY]

30/06 - use up the last 4320 I bought in high school ----71?  Just retired the last 1943 brass , 12ga Buck and slug ( Win PDX12 knock off) . Ask and I will re post this sweet little thing. MORE 12ga Pumpkin Killers! Again just ask.   

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#30-06 -- 180gr 2500fps done. Win PDX12 knock off- 7/8 slug 3 #00 buck 1350 fps done. Pumpkin slugs are curing. They take time. 

Need to cast lead.

Any Ideas about a .58 Minie ball in a 12g wad?

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Just ran to the garage. Lee 500gr Minie fits in a LBC-43 from Ballistic Products.  Set it on top of a Lee .562 ball . Must weigh it but at 1300fps-- might be fun!

[OLD and GRUMPY]

Might be along night---.Friday  8:30  western  got Ancient Aliens on TV    Got any good loads?  What can you cram into a 12ga?  Someplace I have a topic for Fun with Buck Shot.  Love the Beast.  Did the Civil War .58 Buck and ball  over 60gr black thing. Scared the crap out of me. Irish loaded that to clear the sunken road  at Gettysburg. Pull up the pics.  Irish had big stones!

[glenn]

Fighting 69th  !

https://www.luckygunner.com/12-ga-2-3-4-multi-defense-buckshot-nobelsport-10-rounds

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[OV-1D]

Might be along night---.Friday  8:30  western  got Ancient Aliens on TV    Got any good loads?  What can you cram into a 12ga?  Someplace I have a topic for Fun with Buck Shot.  Love the Beast.  Did the Civil War .58 Buck and ball  over 60gr black thing. Scared the crap out of me. Irish loaded that to clear the sunken road  at Gettysburg. Pull up the pics.  Irish had big stones!

  OH YEAH . Especially the stone part .

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#1 is the link Glenn posted.

#2 is my copy of the Win PDX12.  Both at 30'  from a 18" cylinder bore.

[OLD and GRUMPY]

Oh what the heck. We like pics.

On #3   loading #1 gives the wide pattern.  #2 with the buck behind the slug gives a tight pattern.

[swolf]

Shown is my 12 ga. family (excluding my Century Arms coach gun I forgot about above my bed.)
Steel plug shown is a Short Lane "muzzle load" adapter that turns the breech-load gun into a front stuffer that ignites with a 209 primer.  Just got it yesterday, so haven't played with it yet.  It will turn my junker Armory gun into a blunderbus.  Yesterday was my final day at work--EVER!  Took advantage of an early retirement benefit and now I'm free to waste my time playing with the guns I've been collecting.  I have a whole variety of 12 gauge loads I have not had a chance to try yet:  Rubber slugs and shot, pumkin balls (cast myself), swan shot, pewter and lead-free shot, wax and hot glue loads---I tingle to think of all the fun ahead!  I have to move first to my new homestead in Kansas and get my workshop up (after getting a camper so I don't have to sleep in the truck and poop in a bucket for long!)

[OLD and GRUMPY]

There is a reason 12ga settled out as the standard.   20ga will give you same payload/FPS. But the Beast is still the ass kicker.

[swolf]

I recently bought a Rossi 20 ga. single shot, and wondered how it compared to a 12.  I've never looked up a comparison.  I also have 20 ga inserts for my 12 ga guns.  20 ga seemed more versatile for the difference between small game (bunnies, quail, squirrel) and bigger pests (shot and slugs for raccoon, coyote) and larger edibles like turkey, and even deer.  I have a grab-n-go kit made for roving my back 20 that I will have to do a thread on sometime if people are interested.  Includes my new Rossi 20 ga, and an assortment of adapters to take on anything I run across back there--.22, 9mm, .410, .45, and a variety of shot, and slugs available in 20 ga itself. 

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1 oz at 1300 fps -- 12 or 20 what is the difference?  I have a bushing for 410 in 12. In a single shot it's ok. Won't feed well in a pump.

[Uncle_Lee]

Yes, I do like the pictures.

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  I've found that they make colorized versions now , what will they come up with next .