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I deleted this data...that way no one can misundersand, misrepresent, read something into what isn't there, or do something out of the ordinary and WAY beyond most reloader/gunsmiths or get anyone...

My 4th Ed was the 3rd printing, 2000...Ya'll might check YOUR printing and date...that may have something to do with the variation...Each printing will have updates most likely and a small blurb...

Good thing you two, VDO and Squirrelnuttz, have your heads screwed on straight and your eyes open!!!!!!!!!!

I don't use shotgun powders much and only check the manuals when I'm actually working...

VDO is right....Depending on the case brand and length, 2 3/4 ro 3" and construction, wad etc., those loads are slightly to a few grains OVER my Lyman 4th Ed recommended loads...Best to start low...

Recoil is a measured of the total ejecta mass...that includes the weights of the slug, powder, ANY wads, the velocity of that ejecta weight and the rifle weight. Increase the ejecta weight and the...

That's and affirmative, Greg. :bigsmyl2: I never got around to trying either of those. Waiting for the right moment. I liked your 760 S.W. so well I've almost shot those all up, then lost where...

VERY NICE!!!!!! I have about 100 hollow base slugs that look a lot like yours that I haven't tried yet. I've been thinking of filling a few with molten lead and trying them out...You just convinced...

What you are thinking/talking about, Turbo, would be a neat piece of equipment for certain. I suspect if a person had the coin, something very similar could be readily made...or maybe a small wind...

I don't have any problems with the 525, rifled or smoothbore....I worked out loads for that slug that provided enough accuracy for basically close in loads...they will do center mass on anything...

It would be fairly easy to test that point/theory.

Shotguns being low velo to begin with, easy to adjust the velo and the distances fairly short...just load up a few, move to a distance where the...

This variation in results is the good/bad, part and parcel of reloading. A certain set of components, in a specificly configured rifl/shotgun, under specific conditions produces ONE set of results...

OK...That's what Gardners states on his website, but not what happened with my shooters...ALL of them...

Those saboted slugs shot more accurate in my smoothbores... and opened up the groups in the...

The Lyman 525 IS for a smoothbore...I have 3 Mossys and 1 870 with smooth AND rifled barrels of various configurations...I had no trouble keeping inside a pieplate out to ~75 yds with the smoothbore...

Depends on what you think is a good deal...if you think your rifle is "worth less" then....just how "economic" would it be if that powder proved to be highly erratic and blew up your rifle.

I...

I've shot up a bunch of Gardner's Cache... http://gardnerscache.com/index.html... slugs, using his "slug reloading kit", his load data, data out of Lyman Shotshell manual and some I developed. They...

First...did you measure the ogives of the bullets...they can vary over a range of 0.005"...

Next...did you measure the BULLET OAL...THAT can vary over as much as 0.015".

UNLESS you measure and...

Whether or not you weight sort ANY of your components depends on your accuracy requirements...if keeping the shots inside a pie plate at 50 yds is all you want then don't bother, but if you want...

That powder is so old I couldn't find any references to ANY rifles and only a few for pistol and shotgun in Wolfe's "Propellent Profiles".

Half a can???? I would spread it on the Petunias...
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Not to put too fine a point on it, BUT, NO manufacturer drops items that sell...it might be the economic downturn, or it might be the fact that there are fewer and fewer people are buying reloading...

Check out ACCURATE MOLDS and MOUNTAIN MOLDS as to design limitations for their CNC type of mold making. Both list what they can and can't, will and won't make. You can also talk to the other mold...

Ed...you just found out one of the truisms about reloading...

"Necessity is the "Mother of Invention"!!!! [smilie=w:

You can use bushing dies as BULLET SIZERS in...

I understand what you are trying to do, but suggest you might be going about it slightly off center. I have no problem with WHAT you are doing...it's the WAY you are doing it. I'm also not whizzing...

It is NOT THE RIFLE'S STRENGTH OR THE BOLT'S STRENGTH YOU NEED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT...The Savage will handle as much or more pressure than any other rifle brand. I think you need to step back and...

The Savage bolthead does have a small amount of "slop", basically "headspace" which gives it it's higher level of accuracy because it can "fit" itself to the cartridge head, but if the pressure has...