Yep! You got it!
Most of my Winchester AA empty hulls were fired out of a Beretta 686 or a Beretta A400.
The first station in a Mec 9000 has a resizing collet which squishes the brass “head” back down to size.
Soooo….I just brought the 1100 and the 870 along to “prove out” that the hull/shell was resized enough to feed from a tubular magazine, get pushed all the way into the chamber, fired, and then ejected out of the gun.
In other words, those two guns “ran” that ammo 100%.
That was versus those steel plates on the plate rack.
As far as percentage of pellets on paper at 40 yards….
UG!
This was with an “inexpensive” Russian made over/under called a Baikal.
I used fresh factory Winchester AA ammo (#8’s) , my reloads with commercially made #8 birdshot, and my separate reloads with my homemade shot.
In my opinion, at 40 yards, with each of those ammo’s , the patterns were horrible.
But I only had 5 of the paper targets made up.
I shot 2 targets at 16 yards, and 3 targets at 40 yards.
Ideally, I would have or should have shot 5 paper targets with each ammo at 40 yards.
Maybe next time
Made shot in my shop when I had it. We made app 6 ton of shot. Then lead for it became hard to find.
Glad it did. I buy shot now, so does anyone loading that I know. All the disbelievers of cheap shells now buy the 100 packs at Wally World. How soon the status folk turn when it gets expensive.
I donot shoot skeet, trap sporting clays as it is above my paygrade. My shot shooting is hunting so buying the bags of shot I need is easier and cheaper than making it.
At a local Walmart in Sparta, IL…near the World Shooting Complex where the ATA Grand is held, Winchester AA 12gauge target loads were $114 and some change, plus tax per flat (250 shells). I bought two flats and it ended up being $248 and some change out the door for 500 shells.
So basically 50 cents per pop .
Wish I could buy shot locally.. Sportsmans Warehouse been out since the opened a store here recently.. And it's 85$ a bag plus shipping from the usual big supplier on the west coast.
This interesting for how the Russian video done it . I wondering how big the holes was for the shot be made from ? and how the spacing is when drilled in ,
Life Member of NRA,NTA,DAV ,ITA. Also member of FTA,CBA
Got lucky, met a guy who reloads shells at sportsman warehouse shopping..we were both talking about the dismal amount of supplies. I mentioned having no shot to load. He said he had 2 bags of #9 and he doesn't load 9 anymore. Traded telephone numbers. Hadn't heard from him in a bit. Called me yesterday.. He lives 1/2 mile from the jobsite I was working on yesterday. He met me in parking lot. I bought both bags off him. Gave him what he had paid a year ago. We both left happy.
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BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
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