Brass hulls not allowed

[zippy13]

I have got to make up some reloads full of confetti and slip them into one of a buddy's ammo boxes

Include some shot, or he'll notice the weight difference (or, worst case, stick the wad in his barrel). You could do a 7/8-oz load in a boomer shot cup. Drop the shell in his pouch (instead of in a box that he may not shoot that day) and you'll get to see it go off.

Thanks for the Webb reference. Our new neighbors weren't thinking if having us move, but they'd call the sheriff if a round went off a minute after curfew (10:00).

 

[M4BGRINGO]

Wow, with friends like you guys.................

Your friends will actually have a blast!

 

[oneounceload]

We had an old gent where I used to shoot that was a rad eccentric - to say the least. He would pick up ANY hull and use one recipe for everything. If the hull wasn't full, he would use toilet paper as filler.

NOW, this gent spent post WWII and through the 60's in Europe, so he acquired quite a collection of Purdey, H&H, other English BEST and a lot from small boutique makers in Austria and Germany. Nothing like seeing someone shooting a double worth $100,000 and seeing toilet paper coming out of the end.............

 

[TheKlawMan]

make sure you match his hull type ...

That will be easy. We both reload Gun Clubs on MEC Sizemasters. The guy is picking up a new White Onyx this weekend and we are going to the patterning board together. I could slip some confetti bloopers in then, but I am mean and think I will wait until we head to the trap field.

Your buddy Dave should enjoy this or has he done it to you Jim?

 

[B.L.E.]

A low pressure load is not necessarily a quiet load. A high pressure low velocity load pretty much uses the first few inches of barrel to accelerate the shot and then the powder is consumed and the shot pretty much coasts the rest of the way down the barrel and when it exits the bore, there is very little residual pressure to make the boom.
A low pressure load that achieves the same velocity is using the whole barrel to accelerate the shot and there is still a lot of pressure in the barrel when the shot exits, making a louder boom.

Load those brass shells with 80 grains of 2fg black powder and you'll get about 1100 fps at the most but you will create a boom that makes everyone ask "what the heck did you just shoot!!!"

 

[zippy13]

...but you will create a boom that makes everyone ask "what the heck did you just shoot!!!"

The cloud of dense smoke should give them a clue.

 

[BigJimP]

I have not done it to Dave...it was a few years back .../......

..... Dave is very protective of his equipment ...he'd smell out that something was up ..../ and for the most part he shoots the old style Win AA hulls - that have been out of production for 15 yrs or more ...so I couldn't match them unless I got his wife into the act and stole some from his house ( which isn't a bad idea now that I think of it ) ...??? Have to give this some more thought ...