20 Ga. Shotshell

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20 Ga. Shotshell

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Just picked up a 20 Ga. shotshell kit. I seems to be in great condition. The rammer appears to be out of some sort of plastic instead of steel like some of the older kits that I have seen. Date on the charge card is 1972. Plan on using Hercules Unique with it so I am going to have to change out the dipper from the 129 to the 108. That looks like it should give about 16 grains or so of Unique. Should load up a couple with Hercules Unique and compare it to Alliant's Unique and see if there is a noticeable difference. The shot dipper is pretty cool as it is adjustable, 7/8 of an ounce up to 1 3/4 of an ounce.

Didn't find it on eBay, found it through another website that is the local trading post around here. I have picked up powder, primers, bullets and even found a whole Lee reloading kit for a friend on it. No shipping, all of the deals are person to person.

Now to see if I can find one in 410.
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Way to go. Love my two 20s, and of late, my 20 guage double barrel muzzle loader.
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Good deal!
cj8281 wrote:Now to see if I can find one in 410.
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Holy Cow and $50 canadian shipping on top of that. I think I can live with the adjustable shot scoop. A pair of MEC crimp starters are cheap and I imagine they work just fine hand held.

Now my wife is concerned, I just found a 12 ga as a suggested item on that listing.

Been tempted to buy one of the Lee Shotshell loaders and seeing how hard it would be to modify it to 410.... anyone try that??
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Best powders for .410 are H110/W296 both just leak around LoadAll charge bars terrible.
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Re: 20 Ga. Shotshell

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Glad you found a good 20 gauge. There is a .410 right now on Ebay but the bidding is something like $88.00 with 3 days to go. It is one of the very early ones in excellent condition. Whoever wins it will have to have deep, deep pockets. I am watching it but it is already out of my range. The last one I saw go off the board there went for something like $150.00 if I remember correctly. james +corn
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