I used to go nuts on all the different "turkey ranger" supplies from Ballistic Products up in MN. All their publications too. Slitting the wads in different length slits, 8 point crimp, 6 point crimp, roll crimp with plastic or cardboard overshot cards... on and on... I enjoyed it all. With my 10 bore ML, as many different wad materials I could get, fiber, cardboard, lubed wonder wads, but never plastic as it made such a mess in the barrels with black powder! Fast forward to today, I don't even have any of my MEC shotshell presses anymore, committed to factory loadings, for better or for worse. I'll definitely mess around with the choke tubes and may even get some of the other IC just because. In any event, I've drawn IL and WI tags again for this spring, so my field testing will thankfully continue!


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