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Well the old girl can still shoot!

This was at 50 yards, left and right barrels respectively, hold was 6o'clock under both the 'EE' letters on the box. The load was standard B&P #9 trap loads trimmed to 2.5" and PP wad with petals cut above the second seal topped with a 1/8" card wad topped with 1/2" home-made dry felt wad and topped with another 1/8" card wad and finally the 680grain CBE Paradox hollowpoint slug lubed and sized to .733". I havent chrono'd this one yet but this load put smiles on many faces that day!

Dragged this 5-litre empty aluminium can out to 75 yards and let drive at it offhand! These are the entry holes, the can was filled with water halfway and the first slug hit just above the water level making a clean hole at both ends!

The second slug?? Well, lets just say that it had a bit of an argument with the aluminium!!

Loading up a small batch of HP's and the full-bore Lyman Sabots

wad stack for the HP slug

The full-bore Lyman, these weigh 660grains, and I'm yet to try them out!

Felt wad seems to be working well, thankfully. Took a while to get these to come out at the right size!

Home-made crimping tool does a decent job on both types of slugs

another DIY contraption, this hull vise works great and costs peanuts to make yourself! All you need is a small toggle clamp, like the one shown, an 8"x2" aluminium plate 3/8" thick and a 2"x2" aluminium block with a 0.858" hole bored through, I will post details on how to make this in another thread!

Edited by z375 (29/06/14 07:43 AM)

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