I was researching buck shot loads here and thought I'd try a 8 pellet 00 buck out of an old IMR pamphlet that is on page 35. I was working off the second one from the bottom.
Win AA, 209 primer, 32.0 800x, WAA12R claybuster subed wad, 20 grains shot buffer, 2x4 stack 00 buck, 1545 fps.
Rem 870 12 ga. full coke. 25 yards groups on a plate and 40 some yards would show 3-4 on a paper plate.
All in all it seems okay but I have some room in the hull and the load doesn't call for anything to build up the stack.
Should that upward kink in the wad with the missing petal tell me something?
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