Originally Posted by
ChuckJaxFL
Unexpected ‘success’:
Just out of curiosity, I loaded:
Win AAHS gray,
24.5gr Unique,
CB1118-12 (didn’t clip the petals)
And just 6 00B from the Lee mold, stacked in three pairs.
I expected this load to turn the 1187 into a single shot. However, the gun ran five rounds without a hiccup. Velocity was around 1175, patterns were better than my other garbage attempts for the day.
Recoil was laughable. I only had a couple more of these loaded up, so I handed the gun to my 100lb daughter. She’d never shot any shotgun before. Even she felt that the recoil was negligible, she said she could have shot it all day.
I’ll load up a dozen more or so, to see if it really works, or if I just had a lucky day.
With only 6 pellets, this doesn’t seem destined to be my favorite round. But, it is an easy, fun to shoot one. 6 pellets at 1175 is nothing to dismiss. And, it’s nice to have an option that is super cheap, has nearly-no-recoil, and actually works where each and every expensive LE/Tactical ‘reduced recoil’ load that I’ve tried fails.
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