Antique shotgun reloading measure

[Boyscout]

A friend from church found this Shot/Powder measure and cleaned it up for me. I don't think I can use it but I thought it was pretty cool.

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[Janoosh]

Those are good for shot when making spreader loads. The shotgun I have has a fixed choke and I make spreader loads using paper discs and fill the shot using one of those tools.

[fryboy]

back in the simpler days it was in essence equal volumes of black powder and shot , advance to breech loading shells and it was in essence the same albeit with enough wad ( wadding ) to fill the shell , then along came smokeless and for some time they used "bulk" powders that tried to approximate the same ...it's never been the same since lolz but a cool old tool for true !!

[bullet maker 57]

I have 2 of those measures that I use for BP shells.