Marco Califo
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Other thoughts (or tonight's top ten]:
1. Toss your hulls and buy once fired WWAA. They are plentiful and standard.
2. Claybusters makes cheaper wads to replace pricier brand names using same data.
3. MEC loaders (= presses) work great and can be found used cheaply.
4. Loaders use charge "bars" with bushings for shot and powder volumes. I eventually bought an adjustable charge bar to dial in.
5. For what purpose? If hunting ANYTHING in California, you cannot use Lead shot or 00. Possession of any Lead ammo while outdoors is a F&W crime. You can shoot Lead on firing ranges only. 00 gets old after 5 rounds. #8 shot at 5 feet will blow a hole through a cinder block (aim for the hollow).
6. MEC makes a progressive loader but you wont need that kind of volume unless you get involved in trap, skeet, or sporting clay's.
7. Buy your 00 already loaded.
8. Waterfowl? Buy loaded ammo. Cannot be Lead. I loaded steel shot too. 3 1/2" hold more of the lighter pellets.
9. WSF works great. I have also used the "Dots": Red, Green, Blue. Unique seems to work in everything.
10. There is no "any hull" data. However, you will notice that X amount of powder Y will be published and work in similar hulls.
1. Toss your hulls and buy once fired WWAA. They are plentiful and standard.
2. Claybusters makes cheaper wads to replace pricier brand names using same data.
3. MEC loaders (= presses) work great and can be found used cheaply.
4. Loaders use charge "bars" with bushings for shot and powder volumes. I eventually bought an adjustable charge bar to dial in.
5. For what purpose? If hunting ANYTHING in California, you cannot use Lead shot or 00. Possession of any Lead ammo while outdoors is a F&W crime. You can shoot Lead on firing ranges only. 00 gets old after 5 rounds. #8 shot at 5 feet will blow a hole through a cinder block (aim for the hollow).
6. MEC makes a progressive loader but you wont need that kind of volume unless you get involved in trap, skeet, or sporting clay's.
7. Buy your 00 already loaded.
8. Waterfowl? Buy loaded ammo. Cannot be Lead. I loaded steel shot too. 3 1/2" hold more of the lighter pellets.
9. WSF works great. I have also used the "Dots": Red, Green, Blue. Unique seems to work in everything.
10. There is no "any hull" data. However, you will notice that X amount of powder Y will be published and work in similar hulls.
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