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Oh 20 yards it’s clynder bore and both mine shoot good up to the 20 yardWhat distance?
You left out the most important part.
Mark .sorry about that.
Oh 20 yards it’s clynder bore and both mine shoot good up to the 20 yardWhat distance?
You left out the most important part.
His post was in 2019 my friend he’s not back .sorryYour Back!!!!
I have missed you! I love your no nonsense posts!
Now get busy and straighten some of these guys out will you please.
Darn it!His post was in 2019 my friend he’s not back .sorry
Ya there’s lots of variations you can try and use one I found works for me is 3 f works in guns under 20 gauge ( 28/24 ) .Also most times two thin cards over the powder and one thin one over the shot works good once you’ve found the powder charge your gun likes .The thread is 5 years old but what the heck. I’ve been working up loads for my 20ga and 16ga fowlers and have noticed 1f does seem to give better patterns with some loads but you sacrifice velocity. So is it the powder burn rate or is it because the velocity is slower, it will take more experimenting to find out. I generally don’t break the chrony out with snow on the ground so it might have to wait till spring to do real thorough testing . For me 3f gave the worse patterns but it was a small sample size so can’t say this is a true pattern yet. I have switched my wads to one over powder wad and an over shot wad and have found this to generally give good results with all my loads.
I use 1-1/2 F OE in my 12ga Pedersoli/EdHi folks... I am still fairly fresh to the Smoothbore game (couple years now) and am exploring advice as much as possible to help in my journey. I played around with a 20 ga French Trade gun about 20 some odd years ago, but was pretty seasoned with a 50 cal Flinter though. I am currently shooting a .560 Early Trade Gun and am trying to work up loads for various critters. I will have a new 20 ga Early Trade Gun coming soon as well...
This question is about "shot" for both the fur and feathered kind. I am swimming in 3f and not a single can of 2f right now. I have a large stock of #5 shot to play around with. So my question as in the title: What are the Advantages/Disadvantages of 3f with Shot? Is 2f the general rule with shot? Do any of you use 3f for primary shot loads out of your smoothbores? Can you use less 3f in place of 2f for pushing shot? Very eager to here from you "experienced" Smoothbore shooters about this subject, and certainly do appreciate your wisdom. Joel