By Rick Sapp

The vintage Reference - higher and higher than Ever

One of the main revered reloading texts of all time, Reloading for Shotgunners is now higher, extra accomplished and extra profusely illustrated than ever!

This all-new 5th version contains exhaustive facts for lead and non-toxic shot - and it is going way past the ho-hum 2-3/4" 12-gauge facts contained in different books. From .410 bored to 10-gauge magnum, from 2" hulls to the monstrous 3-1/2", if it may be fired in a shotgun, it truly is during this book!

Rick Sapp, co-author of The Gun Digest publication of catch & Skeet, has outdone himself in growing this masterful compilation of shotgun reloading facts. no matter if you are a beginner shotgunner or a professional reloader, you cannot have the funds for to be with out this ground-breaking 5th version of Reloading for Shotgunners

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Steel accelerated quicker to muzzle velocity, but it also slowed down significantly faster. In addition, by experimentation, hunters found that they often needed to drop down a size (sometimes two sizes) to achieve similar results and at closer range so it took #4 or #5 steel to replace #6 lead. Perhaps if we had begun our shooting careers with steel rather than lead, we would have been happy with these results. Here is an example chosen at random. A 2-3/4-inch Winchester one-ounce field load (#XU12) contains 223 pellets of #6 lead in a plastic hull.

Possibly in China. One can only imagine that arriving at this “proper combination” took many lives as well, because improper combinations resulted in dud rounds, uncontrolled premature explosions and uncomfortably separated appendages. Alliant’s Herco is a popular and versatile shotshell reloading powder, along with Green Dot and Red Dot. indd 31 31 5/31/05 9:58:06 AM The development of modern smokeless powders, through guncotton, Poudre B, cordite and ballistite in the 1800s cleared the smoke from a battlefield.

Their argument is that large steel pellets, even polished steel pellets, do not flow very smoothly through smaller bores or even through the 12-gauge. Thus, steel shot caused the more open 10-gauge to recover from the oblivion of history. This could be true, because every aspect of shotgunning we study deals with tolerances in thousandths of an inch. 046inch (less on the increasingly common backbored barrels with lengthened forcing cones). That dimension is about 1/20-inch and you need to try to narrow down that minute measurement on a ruler.

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