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I still haven’t ran my load through a chronograph. The person who recommended the load also uses the same powder charge in his muzzle loader. He had a chance to run his load through a chrony. His load velocity is approx 900 FPS. I still will run mine through one of these days to see if the load packed in a plastic shell picked up any more velocity compared to his. I also need to find some #5 and #4 shot to see how they pattern with the same load. Any one here have a few ounces of either to spare?

Finally finished mounting it today. I never noticed till I mounted the beard today that the main beard was starting to separate into two separate beards. I’m guessing by next year it would have had tripplebeards.

I found some low data the other day I might have to try in my gun. RST shelves are 65 to 6800 for pressure at one and a quarter ounce loads. I found a 2 ounce load with 3 1/2 inch that 6900 pressure. Don’t know if I’ll get 2oz in a 2 7/8” hull but I’m going to find out next week. Figured I’d start out with 90 grains. I’ll try 95 grains and 100 grains as well and see which patterns the best. This is some old load data from 1983 I found.

My shotshell trimmer. It indexes on the rim so all shells are exactly the same, no adjustments needed for base wad height.

3/4" copper pipe works for 12ga, you might have to size the brass part first if the original gun had a large chamber. I cut with a sharp box cutter.







For 10ga two 3/4" connect fittings soldered together and cut to length