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Naturally, the results of my experiments have been varied. It was a hand loaded Speer 357 shot cap using Size 9 shot. I killed my first Blue Grouse with a handgun shot load in the early 1970s. My experiments have run from 380ACP to 45ACP and the Thompson Contender 44 Magnum Shot Caps. (Long before the Speer Shot Cap was produced.) I’ve been playing with handgun shot loads for a lot of years. The felt "Wonder wads" for percussion revolvers make pretty good over powder wads for shot loads, with a gas check crimped on top, or a layer of thick milk carton cardboard, and crimped with a screwdriver blade in a sort of star crimp over the edge of the wad. The 1886 action was easier to get the shells out of than the Marlin action when they didn't extract. I didn't want to be monkeying with pulling a shotshell out when something more in line with why I carry a 45-70 showed up to see what the noise was. I decided not to carry them for snake loads because of the flaky extraction. They swell the case head up, and don't always extract well, but will fire. The way I load round balls, they are pretty quiet also, about in the realm of a 22 in a rifle.īTW, its possible to shoot 410s in a 45-70. The round balls for me have done everything I've asked of them, and at greater distance, so I've gone over to them for anything beyond literal spitting distance on snakes. Ive made them up in 45 Colt and 45-70, and used the factory offerings in several calibers. Out of ordinary carry guns and rifled long guns, shot loads just haven't done that great for me. A friend had one with the 45 Colt/410 barrel, he said it threw crazy good patterns farther than he thought it would. They had ribs to stop the spin induced by the rifling. Can you show a picture and describe your choke? The old T-C Contender hotshot barrels were supposed to throw pretty decent patterns with the choke they had. Good idea on using one on the threaded barrel.
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I had fired exactly around the soda can.Ĭlick to expand. Mystified I fired the next shot at a frozen pond and it made a perfectly circular pattern at about 10 feet. I fired one at a soda can and hit nothing. I only had large shot, like lead BB, and the charge was about 10 pellets. I would love to find a short (half-sized?) wadcutter bullet as the top.ĮTA - Back in the day I once experimented with shot from a. A steady diet of them will start to lead the barrel, as pure lead does that quickly. At close range it stays in the center of the pattern and the shot is only a back-up. Supposedly the round ball will fly true out to about 15 yard or so for taking small game. I'm planning to make a bunch of these at some point. 36 caliber pure lead round ball held in with a roll crimp. There is a version out there on the interwebs called the "snake charmer" (IIRC) that uses a gas check as the over powder wad, load of shot, and is topped off with a. The nail polish was very thick and protected them quite well. I would then seal the top wad with a heavy coat of black nail polish. I used a hard cardboard wad over the powder, fill the case with shot, and pop another wad on top.
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He swore it was the bees knees for cottonmouths, but I honestly never saw one of his more dead or more alive than one I shot with the 45 and my mix. I had a buddy who would load the capsule with 1/3 #6, 1/3 #9, and 1/3 #12 in a 44 using Speer's load data for the capsule. Sometimes the first shot would just knock him out of the rafters and I would have to pop him a second time on the ground. As an example of energy loss in a single story barn from flat footed on the ground I would shoot chicken snakes in the rafters and it would usually kill the snake, but wouldn't penetrate the corrugated tin roof. About the largest I could see going is #8 1/2 and even then I would want some #10 or #12 mixed in for fill in. Also larger shot in the capsules always just seemed to have a blown out useless pattern for me. Energy loss on that small a shot with that light a charge at any amount of range is pretty insane. Still I wouldn't try to bird hunt with it, even in an emergency. These days commercially I think they just label anything finer than #12 shot as "dust" shot.
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In a 45 long colt a mix of #9 or #10 and #14 always seemed to get a better pattern. The stock I have was actually a leftover partial bag from the 60s anyway it works pretty well at X footsteps for snakes in a 38. #14 shot, yeah #14 try finding THAT shot size these days I have about a half pound of it left 1.11 mm when I ordered it from a supply house in the 90s. Bear in mind that the shot sizes used in most capsules are minuscule compare to typical shotgun shot. Speer shot capsules (see above link) have always worked better for me than any other method.