I went hunting a little yesterday afternoon, and got to shoot my first 3 inch reload. One lone honker came in and I took his bill off with 1-1/4 oz. of steel B's That one had a little more bite to it than has the bismuth from ITX shells I've been shooting. Used the SBE and factory modified choke. I found the load on the Alliant Steel powder reloading page: 3" Fed. hull (.090 base) Fed. 209A primer 36 grains Steel powder Reloading Specialties 12 gauge 3" steel wad 1-1/4 oz steel B's I think I put for splits in the wad 1430 fps 10,500 pressure
That looks like a good load. I got some fiber inner base wad hulls looking for a good recipe. No overshot card?
No overshot cards no undershot spacers. You should look at their website I think they got some recipes for fiber based hulls, too. Just google Alliant Steel powder recipes.
Hi guys. I reloaded lead but was long ago using a cheap lee load all. Should a guy who has that even consider packing his own tss ? If so would you all mind trying to teach a 14 yr old to load waterfowl loads with tss? Im talking about me. I'm not in a hurry. By next season would be great. Help a guy get restarted? My old load was from the Lee book. Pamphlet? Was the highest powered one. Blue dot powder. To do waterfowl loads capable of use in 0F i have to redo everything I get that. Help me select a load for 2.75 inch shells loaded with tss. If i could get 1400 fps id be happy. I dont know where to start. If its buy another loader...im out. Thanks. I'm not actually 14 but in my head I'm 14. Its called arrested development.
Oh yeah those B's ? I've used a great many of them , some 75 to 90 DBH's and others right out of the Crossman bottle ! Most were just out of a Rio / ched hull with 465 grs with a TPS 1265 or Sam 1 ! The sound they make when they hit feathers is awesome and they can be very effective , even tho these are a little light on payload , choked properly in my gun , they'll hammer a Spec or Snow out a considerable distance ! I much prefer inside the decoys but going away birds , these B's will definitely turn them into a Cartwheel .
I load all my shells on a Lee Load All. Bought a 12 gauge and then just bought a 16 and 20 gauge heads to change out. I weigh everything so really all I need is the wad starter and the crimpers. It's worked out pretty good so far.
Oh have we (reloaders) come a long way from using Blu dot , today we have "A Steel" powder made by Alliant powder Co. ! There are some loads on their site on the web But , better info can be had from RSI (Reloaders Specialities Inc) in their manual along with BPI ( Ballistic Products Inc) ! As far as what you prefer to load with , your Load All will do a fine job but most of us have moved on to Mec's , SteelMasters , 600 Jrs and Size Masters seem to be leaders in machines . Bring yourself up to date with the free pamphlets on components from these Companies along with info on this forums archives ! Oh and welcome to a bunch of really Great Fellas , who are always willing to help !
