Busyhands94
Member
Lately I've been doing quite a lot of trap shooting, as some of you know I haven't been able to shoot pistol or rifle for a while due to the land I usually shot on being closed off.
So I started shooting trap at the gun club but the smokeless fumes were starting to get to my head. I needed a new way to get my BP fix. So I started loading shotshells with blackpowder, 16 guage 3" with my supplies purchased from Ballistic Products Inc.
From BPI I purchased Rio hulls, waxed nitro card wads, and their mini overshot card wads. The load I was using at first was 3 drams of Goex black rifle powder, I found out quickly that 3 drams and an ounce of shot was a painful load out of my 6 pound shotgun. I tried two drams, that was softer and easy to shoot but didn't get the shot there fast enough. I settled on a load of 2.5 drams of BP or Pyrodex and one ounce of 7 1/2 chilled lead birdshot as a target load.
Boy am I having fun shooting these loads!
They are actually patterning fairly well, and the recoil isn't too bad either.
I let some other curious shooters try out my gun with some BP loads, they were a hit over there, everyone loved them!
More updates to come when I get some shot and try some plastic shot cups, I have used those in 12 gauge loads with 3 drams of powder. After a few smokeless loads the BP fouling got shot out! I'll see if I can make shot cups work with BP, I'd bet if there was a mini nitro card under them the base wouldn't melt and I wouldn't get any plastic fouling. Of course I don't know until I try, just another excuse to burn more blackpowder!
~Levi
So I started shooting trap at the gun club but the smokeless fumes were starting to get to my head. I needed a new way to get my BP fix. So I started loading shotshells with blackpowder, 16 guage 3" with my supplies purchased from Ballistic Products Inc.
From BPI I purchased Rio hulls, waxed nitro card wads, and their mini overshot card wads. The load I was using at first was 3 drams of Goex black rifle powder, I found out quickly that 3 drams and an ounce of shot was a painful load out of my 6 pound shotgun. I tried two drams, that was softer and easy to shoot but didn't get the shot there fast enough. I settled on a load of 2.5 drams of BP or Pyrodex and one ounce of 7 1/2 chilled lead birdshot as a target load.
Boy am I having fun shooting these loads!
They are actually patterning fairly well, and the recoil isn't too bad either.
I let some other curious shooters try out my gun with some BP loads, they were a hit over there, everyone loved them!
More updates to come when I get some shot and try some plastic shot cups, I have used those in 12 gauge loads with 3 drams of powder. After a few smokeless loads the BP fouling got shot out! I'll see if I can make shot cups work with BP, I'd bet if there was a mini nitro card under them the base wouldn't melt and I wouldn't get any plastic fouling. Of course I don't know until I try, just another excuse to burn more blackpowder!
~Levi