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This what I was hoping to hear. I suspect I can start pretty low and just check for a clear barrel between each firing. I will be using a break action shotgun, so checking the barrel will be easy.The result is a Pfff, with shot rolling out the muzzle and maybe a stuck wad. The reason it's not a risk for air detonation is the process for crimping the shotshell pushes the wad down against the powder, leaving no air gap. If you don't realize there may be a wad lodged in the barrel, the next round chambered may open up your patterns explosively by barrel rupture.
What signs do you look for?Undercharged = reduced load.
Shotguns aren't built for the pressures required to flatten primers. Your face will be flattened / rearranged first.
Unless it's a powder that doesn't tolerate reduction like H110 which could lead to an extreme pressure spike.This what I was hoping to hear. I suspect I can start pretty low and just check for a clear barrel between each firing. I will be using a break action shotgun, so checking the barrel will be easy.
I will be sticking with fast powders starting with Red Dot and Ramshot Competition.Unless it's a powder that doesn't tolerate reduction like H110 which could lead to an extreme pressure spike.
I don't - more accurately, haven't. I load shotgun by the book. The recoil of my gun tells me all I need to know.What signs do you look for?
Some years ago, I experimented with loading 20 ga. brass hulls. It's a somewhat different proposition than loading plastic hulls. You need to get the right oversize wad materials. You also need to get the wad pressure done right, or you can have the same kind of result as an insufficient charge.I am looking for light recoil subsonic loads that can be loaded using brass cases and with whatever wads, nitrocards, overshot cards etc that I have on hand or can make at the dining room table.
Good info. I've never considered brass hulls.Some years ago, I experimented with loading 20 ga. brass hulls. It's a somewhat different proposition than loading plastic hulls. You need to get the right oversize wad materials. You also need to get the wad pressure done right, or you can have the same kind of result as an insufficient charge.
The only place I have found 16ga hulls.Ballistic Products Inc. was my source for oddball shot shell supplies.
Under and overpowered shot loads will not pattern so that you can predict [ read that aim] where your shot column will pass.What signs do you look for?
Gross disfiguration and radical reconstructive surgery.What signs do you look for?
I think hobby reloaders who are loading full brass hulls with black powder have better success that those trying it with smokeless.Good info. I've never considered brass hulls.