DIRT Farmer
11-28-2013, 01:30 PM
I have no idea where the proper place to put this but I wanted to use them for hunting so hear goes.
Many years ago I bought a 44 hotshot/44 mag barrel for my T/C Contender for general fun. The loads were expensive, heck the capsules for reloadng were more than I wanted to spend and only held a scant 3/8 ounce of shot but over the years I shot a few rabbits and one dove with it but spending enough to get very good with it was not in my budget.
Enter learning more about paper patching here, and while Iwas resting from cleaning fot Thanksgiving, I noticed a junk AAA battery that was lying around. Having an empty 44 Mag case in my pocket, I wraped it twice with some note book paper and it was a slipfit. Now experminting with something shooting beats cleaning, I was on a mission. It turns out that paper patching a AAA battery gives a capsule that with the end folded over holds 1/2 ounce of shot and enough ends to make a crimp. I resized a few cases primed them, found I had to flare them to get the shot capsule in. I went to my 410 loader, used my normal 410 load of powder (in this case Winchester 820) put in a 44 hard card (used for loading 410 brass cases) seated it with the 410 loader, and use the resizing die for the 44mag to takeout the flare. I did have to use a rod to push out the shot capsule to keep it in the case intact. I used some with glue and some with out glue, fired 6, and the patterns were at least 410 improved cylinder. Now after some thing to shoot later.
Others may have tried this or simular but I was suprised how well it workes, and how long it took me to get the idea to try it.
Alan
Many years ago I bought a 44 hotshot/44 mag barrel for my T/C Contender for general fun. The loads were expensive, heck the capsules for reloadng were more than I wanted to spend and only held a scant 3/8 ounce of shot but over the years I shot a few rabbits and one dove with it but spending enough to get very good with it was not in my budget.
Enter learning more about paper patching here, and while Iwas resting from cleaning fot Thanksgiving, I noticed a junk AAA battery that was lying around. Having an empty 44 Mag case in my pocket, I wraped it twice with some note book paper and it was a slipfit. Now experminting with something shooting beats cleaning, I was on a mission. It turns out that paper patching a AAA battery gives a capsule that with the end folded over holds 1/2 ounce of shot and enough ends to make a crimp. I resized a few cases primed them, found I had to flare them to get the shot capsule in. I went to my 410 loader, used my normal 410 load of powder (in this case Winchester 820) put in a 44 hard card (used for loading 410 brass cases) seated it with the 410 loader, and use the resizing die for the 44mag to takeout the flare. I did have to use a rod to push out the shot capsule to keep it in the case intact. I used some with glue and some with out glue, fired 6, and the patterns were at least 410 improved cylinder. Now after some thing to shoot later.
Others may have tried this or simular but I was suprised how well it workes, and how long it took me to get the idea to try it.
Alan