buckshot/birdshot diameter reference needed

[theperfessor]

I used to have a printed table that listed buckshot and birdshot diameters. Can't find it now or the original source either. Does anybody have a link to an online version?

[Storydude]

http://www.ammobank.com/shotsize.html

:tiphat:

[sargenv]

Not really a table, but for lead shot it lists shot for sale and gives the corresponding sizes of their lead shot..

http://www.ballisticproducts.com/products.asp?dept=68

and the same link for their buck shot

http://www.ballisticproducts.com/products.asp?dept=65

[theperfessor]

Thanks guys.

[shotman]

most all your loading books will have list in the first pages of the shot shell loading section No 7 is ..100 add or subtract .010 for each size and that will get you close till you get to the large size

[mooman76]

As long as were on the subject does anyone know why they quit making #7 shot and went with 7 1/2 instead?

[richbug]

As long as were on the subject does anyone know why they quit making #7 shot and went with 7 1/2 instead?


They still make #7, I like it for general purpose small game. My local shotgun snob shop has a pallet of it, but they have to walk out back to get it for you. Only available in "Magnum"(read expensive) shot, not cheap "chilled" stuff.

[jsizemore]

Try; www.shotgunworld.com/amm.html Good luck

[Duckiller]

Shot dia= 18-shot size = diameter in thousandths. I have never seen size 7 lead shot only 71/2., regularly find steel 7's. To avoid arguing with game wardens I carried steel 7's to shoot snipe while duck hunting. Never managed to shoot a snipe. By the time I decided a bird was a snipe and got shells switched, bird had flown away.

[fourarmed]

Duckiller has it right, although I have heard 17-shot size.