Ok, so I am new to shotshell reloading .... but I did quite a bit of research on buck and ball loads over the winter ... ordered components ... did the calculations ... and loaded some shells. I haven't shot them yet ... but next week end will be the day ... and I will report back here with the results ... so stay tuned ... ;)
There are basically two types of buck & ball loads that I am experimenting with:
1.) Loads that are inspired by Ajay (VdoMemorie)
Here the link to the original post:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...Buck-amp-Slugs
But it seems the images are gone ... and these images were great to explain things. Luckily I created a PDF from that post ... here a link to a PDF that I did:
http://kalypso.net/temp/Buck_and_Bal...ading_12ga.pdf
Here a picture of what I have loaded so far:
Attachment 200343
2.) Variation of the Dixies Tri-Ball load
And the other load I am experimenting with is a variation of Dixies Tri-Ball load. Basically I am replacing 2 of the 3 .600 with some sort of smaller buckshot, and keeping the payload close to the original load.
Here the original Tri-Ball recipe:
(1) 12 ga 3" Cheddite, Fiocchi, or Federal Gol Metal hull
(2) 28/29 grs of Alliant Blue Dot
(3) Precision Relooding Orange Wad TUPRWW123
(4) Three .600" hard cast round balls
(5) Precision Reloading buffer
(6) Thin overshot wad.
(7) Roll crimp
Here the link to the post:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...all-Revisited!
And here a picture of the components that I am using:
Attachment 200344
Voila ... so much for now .... hopefully I can post some results after next week end ....