Soooooo,
A friend and I are about to start rolling our own snake loads. We'll be loading for .38 Special, .44 Magnum, and .45 Colt.
The plan is to order the kits from Sage's Outdoors with the wads and gas checks, and a sack of #12 from Ballistic Products.
I have Unique on hand, Sage's recommends using Speer's shot capsule data.
Questions:
1. How far down to push the wad? Leave an airspace? Press down to the top of the powder (mildly compressed)? Full on compression?
2. Do we need to weigh out a specific charge in grains? Or just fill the case up with whatever size shot (#12 in our case, which will be the heaviest for the volume) and party on?
Thanks!!!