i admit i am not the brightest match in the box, so just bear in mind with me a bit.
Every magzine says that to keep the payload from being damage during firing, i need to have a plastic shotcup with the crushable piston area as well as plastic buffering material.
It sounds nice, but every round of ammunition with those features i have taken apart have been damaged already. The 30 year old factory loads of hard lead buckshot and the 3 year old federal plated buckshot, all had flattened sides where they touched another buck shot in the cup.
why is shooting a 45 colt load through a choked .410 barrel gonna blow the choke/muzzle apart, but a plastic shotcup with a slug or even steel shot inside will not do that? Does the plastic wad have a miracalous power of compression that regular lead does not?
choke, what differences in effectiveness occurs when you go form just card wads ala the old bp muzzlelaoding shotgun, to fancy plastic shotcups?
relief choke apparently is an old method where the last 25 to 30 percent of the barrel is gradually tapered out to a larger bore diameter. Writers tell us thats a really stupid thing to do, but yet a few years ago when they started selling shot shell adaptersso you could fire off a 410 or 16 guage in that favorite 12 guage of yours, it was a good idea even though it does the same effect as a relief choke..
if i reload my own shotshells, can i replace the fancy plastic shotcups with extra pellets? just curious if i can as long as i stay inside pressure limits.
Every magzine says that to keep the payload from being damage during firing, i need to have a plastic shotcup with the crushable piston area as well as plastic buffering material.
It sounds nice, but every round of ammunition with those features i have taken apart have been damaged already. The 30 year old factory loads of hard lead buckshot and the 3 year old federal plated buckshot, all had flattened sides where they touched another buck shot in the cup.
why is shooting a 45 colt load through a choked .410 barrel gonna blow the choke/muzzle apart, but a plastic shotcup with a slug or even steel shot inside will not do that? Does the plastic wad have a miracalous power of compression that regular lead does not?
choke, what differences in effectiveness occurs when you go form just card wads ala the old bp muzzlelaoding shotgun, to fancy plastic shotcups?
relief choke apparently is an old method where the last 25 to 30 percent of the barrel is gradually tapered out to a larger bore diameter. Writers tell us thats a really stupid thing to do, but yet a few years ago when they started selling shot shell adaptersso you could fire off a 410 or 16 guage in that favorite 12 guage of yours, it was a good idea even though it does the same effect as a relief choke..
if i reload my own shotshells, can i replace the fancy plastic shotcups with extra pellets? just curious if i can as long as i stay inside pressure limits.