Winchester Blank 12ga rounds

[hondamikek]

As I do with most, since I love how things work.. I pulled apart one of these Winchester 12ga blanks to see how I could go about duplicating them. It’s a 2.75” hull, with 170 grains of tightly packed black powder(I’m gonna try some with Pyrodex), topped with a 1/2” fiber wad and roll crimped. That’s it. I took pics too, for reference. Just email me. Figure someone may want this info. Good to know. These are crazy loud, and a hoot to shoot outside on the 4th of July, or any day for that matter!

[TjB101]

Wondering if you could do the same with smokeless powder, xx grains of Unique, Reddot, or Bullseye with some grits or cow in a cup.

[rancher1913]

you wont get the "bang" from smokless

[Hanzy4200]

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not super keen on shooting a belching load of BP through my shotguns. Sounds like a easy way to pit out a barrel.

[megasupermagnum]

Wondering if you could do the same with smokeless powder, xx grains of Unique, Reddot, or Bullseye with some grits or cow in a cup.

I've seen loads for smokeless blanks. Mostly I recall a decent charge of fast powder like red dot, then nothing but a stack of hard nitro cards and fold crimped. I've made "blanks" with peoples ashes. They most certainly go bang.

[15meter]

If my old guy memory isn't completely faulty, I used to make 12 gauge black powder blanks from a recipe that was in a 70's vintage Dixie Gun Works catalog.

I THINK I used a Winchester AA hull, an at this point unremembered volume of black powder, 60 grains, MAYBE? A Winchester AA wad was used with the shot petals cut off.

A yard+ of flames if you shot at night with a massive cloud of smoke combined with more racket then you would think is possible from that small a package.

May have to go on an archeological dig to find one of those old Dixie catalogs. Pretty sure I know within 10 feet where it's at, just not sure I'm brave enough to dig into the pile. Not sure I could survive if there's a cave-in.

[TjB101]

I've seen loads for smokeless blanks. Mostly I recall a decent charge of fast powder like red dot, then nothing but a stack of hard nitro cards and fold crimped. I've made "blanks" with peoples ashes. They most certainly go bang.

Thanks … appreciate the reply … may have to try in the near future.