If you find that interesting TG, here's one for you. The late Charles Askins used to load his ten gauge shotshells buy inserting a tube of smaller diameter than the shell. He would then drop #3 lead pellets into the tube, drop #9 shot around the outside of the tube, and withdraw the tube so that the #3 shot was surrounded by #9s. His idea was that the fine shot took the beating of running up the bore and through the choke, thus leaving the #3s nice and round. He claimed to consistently kill geese at 80 yards with that load. That was in the days before plastic shotcups and I guess the fine shot served as both wrapper and buffer. Of course, to do that with a muzzleloader you'd need a tube the length of the barrel. :grin:
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Buck and shot
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