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DarylS
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Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.
12/06/21 11:33 AM

My 1898 SxS with "fluid steel" bls. shot very well with .682" 482gr.) round balls supported by the cupped base cut off a WWAA12 white trap wad.
With smokeless powders, I put one of those cut off cups cup-down over the powder, then 1/2" fiber wad + whatever cards were needed to get the proper height for a standard crimp.
With black powder, a full 7 drams (190gr.)2F GOEX. I used one hard card over powder wad, then the cup-up under the ball to centre it, then star crimped. I might have needed 2 card wads over the powder - I don't remember.
I used 4756 and 7625 powders, however Blue Dot, Long Shot and Steel might be even better. Loading data for extrapolation can be found in Lyman's Shotshell loading manual. I suspect loads to about 1,800fps are quite doable. The BP load ran 1,500fps in my 24" tubes (cut off from 29") as-did the smokeless loads.
both shot to the sights (dovetailed into the rib) out to 100 meters.
Incidentally, the black powder load kicked roughly twice as much as the smokeless load.

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Daryl

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Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	tarawa	12/06/21 10:42 AM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	DarylS	12/06/21 11:33 AM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	tarawa	12/06/21 11:37 AM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	DarylS	13/06/21 01:41 AM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	260rem	12/06/21 11:44 AM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	tarawa	12/06/21 12:23 PM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	260rem	12/06/21 01:58 PM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	Marrakai	12/06/21 03:13 PM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	tarawa	15/06/21 12:37 PM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	Marrakai	15/06/21 02:06 PM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	260rem	15/06/21 06:42 PM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	tarawa	17/06/21 10:41 AM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	260rem	17/06/21 07:31 PM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	tarawa	18/06/21 12:25 AM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	260rem	18/06/21 10:03 AM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	tarawa	02/07/21 12:03 PM
Re: Another Poor Man’s Slug gun.	tarawa	25/10/21 01:38 PM

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