Thanks man

Thanks man.

Luckily everything you’d need is currently available

BP had their steel shot on sale. I believe that it was in 10 pound bags. Check their website.

Longshot takes up a lot less room

Alliants website

That first load is something I’ve actually done a video on a couple years ago. People seem it like it. I used crossman bb’s.

@theshotgunscientists but that one was 1oz load, not 1 1/8 oz

And yep, that 2 3/4 " load is an awesome load

Longshot develops pressure spikes a lot faster with steel shot. It can be done but the velocity would suffer.

@theshotgunscientists more velocity doesn't really kill. If it 1200 to 1350 fps, that should work.

Those are filler materials used over the shot to get better crimps actually

Thanks man

Yes

Status of steel

What’s the full load data

@theshotgunscientists it comes from the alliant 2000 data, but that one was a 1 1/2 oz load, but know that alliant steel had changed a bet since then, and I also checked out the new tps data and looked at both the 1 1/8 oz and 1 1/4 oz load to get the exact charge of powder with 1 3/8 oz load to be in safe psi

Going for 1 1/4 oz payload and a roll crimp

I’m not sure man I’ve never messed with that wad

Reloaders network 4 pin is by far the best one on the market unless you get one of the gaep bn series but those are expensive. The reloaders network one puts a very nice taper on your shells and will even roll crimp shells that have a fold crimp on them.

@@theshotgunscientists I bought two of the Reloaders Network 12ga 4 pin roll crimpers over a year ago. I've made hundreds of rounds with one of them, keeping the other as a backup. So far, the first one is performing as well as the day I bought it. Highly recommend. I don't have a Gaep, but hear they are phenomenal. I do much more fold crimping than roll, so I never found it a justifiable purchase. What part of KY are you in? I'm in Louisville, about 9 miles from Knob Creek Range. You should swing by and pick up Scott from KY Ballistics and Buffalo from Buffalo's Outdoors, and bring them out for a day of mayhem with me! Lol.

@@robertfrapples2472 I’m in Grayson about 30 minutes from Ashland. Just below Ohio and west Virginia. I have the RN roll crimp tools in 20 and 16 gauge they are awesome. Best on the market I believe. Gaep is on a different level though. I ain’t seen the need for one though.

I’ve used mec presses and don’t like them. I’ve been using the Lee load all for 4 years and get great looking crimps out of it. I don’t think mecs are anywhere near as versatile, I’ve got lees in 12, 20 and 16 gauge, and a converted 12 gauge kit that does 10 gauge. I can also load 2.5” shells with them without having to adjust anything at all. I also fold crimp my 24 and 32 gauge shells with them with the help of chamber inserts as a final crimp tube. I also have 3d printed kits for the Lee load all in 28, 24, 32, 10 and .410. The taper crimp die I have on my 10 gauge press is awesome. I’ve got a bolt on depriming punch for 3.5” shells that’s mounted right to one of them. Basically a whole new station. I just like my Lee presses, they put out great crimps if you know how to use them and I’ve got about 200 bucks into them and some add ons that allow me to crimp all 8 different gauges I own. We’ve barely ever ran into any pressure signs, typically speaking we stay away from max powder charges or high pressure loads due to unavailability of components right now. It’s almost impossible to follow a load recipe piece by piece these days. We also test new components out that don’t have data available hardly. The trick is to start low with powder charges if you aren’t sure. I can think of only 3 times we’ve ran into pressure problems but nothing serious, just some primer flow back here and there but most of that is due to mossberg shotguns having huge firing pin holes.

Yes

Nope but I can get it locally

@theshotgunscientists I have a Requested load I love to see tried out. It comes from a mec steel shot load data from 1994 copy. It uses 3 " winchester supper X hull basic base wads, fed209a primers, 42 gr Hercules/Alliant 2400 ( I try 39 gr if needed to use ched209 primer), mec12 3" which are now the precision reloading tuprw123 wads, 1 1/4 oz of steel shot going at 1260 fps at 11,500 psi.

@@theshotgunscientists I got 3 cans of it and was curious to see you try this load

One day for sure. Hardly anyone hunts waterfowl where we’re at.

Quick question you think you can make a video on how to make a three inch shell hold two different kind of loads?