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Looking for lite 7/8 oz load using Red Dot. I have some that I would like to use up.  
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Turkey Bob. 

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My wife and I shoot 1oz loads of 7 1/2 with 15 gr. of Red Dot.  We've used this load for years. 

 

She says it feels like factory AA Featherlites.  A number of fellow shooters are loading 7/8 oz with 12-13gr of Red Dot.

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29 minutes ago, Turkey Bob said:

Looking for lite 7/8 oz load using Red Dot. I have some that I would like to use up.  
Thank You 

Turkey Bob. 

I used a 27 bushing in a MEC I think it was about 14.4gr. I use the same bushing for Red Dot, Clay Dot and Clays.

 

 Randy 

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I've used 12 grains of Red Dot and 7/8 oz shot almost from day one. When I started, I had never loaded shotshells before, so I asked another shooter I casually knew through his job, and he said, "I use 18.0 grains of Red Dot and 1 1/8 oz shot". :blink: I didn't know any better, and I'm pretty sure I still have a few left from the first boxes I loaded. :lol:

 

Another long-time shooter here used 9.0 grains Red Dot for years - you could actually see the shot ball going downrange. Eventually, he must have gotten a wad or two stuck in the barrel because he bumped it up to 10.0 grains, and is still using that load today.

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2 hours ago, Randy Saint Eagle, SASS # 64903 said:

I used a 27 bushing in a MEC I think it was about 14.4gr. I use the same bushing for Red Dot, Clay Dot and Clays.

 

 Randy 

Same… any lighter will allow blow-by in my baikals charring the hulls a bit…ruining the shell for reloading because they’re no longer smooth… 

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13.7 Red Dot

claybuster gray wad

7/8 Oz shot. 
works well for me. Knocks down the targets. (Assuming I hit them lol!) 

 

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10 hours ago, Three Foot Johnson said:

What's a feathered wad?

@Texas Jack Black

Feathered wads have the petals sliced into multiple petals that allow the wad to open sooner in order to help release the shot load faster. 

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That's kind of what I was thinking - I use Claybuster wads a lot, because they're cheap, and they have a Windjammer pattern with 8 petals, but I've never heard the term "feathered" to describe them before.

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I always run the 1250 fps load, which I think is 17.5.   It’s a book load.   The only change I made was use a shorter wad ie the 7/8 oz wad in AA-HS hulls.   I was shooting sporting clays or trap and supposedly 1250 was a good velocity for a nice pattern.  Shot 10’s of thousands of them.   If you want less powder, extra lite is a good choice.  

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3 hours ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:

10 grains of Red Dot seems to work just fine,

This is good to know.  I'm running through my remaining Clays pretty quickly.  I have plenty of Titegroup for metalic cartridge, but only about 5 lbs of Clays left.  My current load is 11.9 of Clays, so the same load of Red Dot will probably work fine.

7 minutes ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:

 

Yeah..    Sees to be as rare as Trail Boss

 

You can find it on Gunbroker for about $350 and up for 8 lbs.

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41 minutes ago, Captain Bill Burt said:

This is good to know.  I'm running through my remaining Clays pretty quickly.  I have plenty of Titegroup for metalic cartridge, but only about 5 lbs of Clays left.  My current load is 11.9 of Clays, so the same load of Red Dot will probably work fine.

You can find it on Gunbroker for about $350 and up for 8 lbs.

Yeah, I've noticed and not quite that desperate. 

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We took wads and slit them into multiple petals in order to open up at real short distances. This worked very well in jungle situations.

 

Best Wishes

 

TJB

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With regard to a spread or wide pattern, I offer the following observations.

 

1  My first regular Main Match shotgun was a 20" no choke, Winchester 97.   My secondary Main Match shotgun was a Parker with 18" no choke barrels.

 

2.  I would occasionally miss with both guns.

 

3.  That Parker can be a shoulder thumper, especially when you give it both barrels to a stubborn target that just won't fall down.

4.  My current regular Main Match shotgun is a 30" 97 with a full choke.  My secondary shotgun is a Parker with 30" F/F chokes.

5.  Never say never, but I hardly ever miss with either gun.

 

6.  The much heavier 30' Parker is much more pleasant to shoot.  Never had a stubborn knockdown with it.  But I did try it with both barrels once into the dirt after the shoot was over.  Not *too* bad.  :)

Points 3 and 6 aside, I have obviously found better luck with a tight pattern than with spread out one.   But that's probably different for everyone.

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