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For anyone who is interested.

20 ga NEF 3� slugger
Burris 2-7 scope
Shot at 50 yards off of rifle rest and sandbags

HG after slug indicated the base was filled with hot glue from a hobby store hot glue gun and allowed to cool before laoding.

All boxes on the targets are 1 inch square.

Loads as follows

Load #500

2-3/4 Rem Hull
Win 209 primer
25 gr Bluedot
1 Obturator gas seal
4, 1/8 nitro cards
373 gr Lee slug, HG
Star crimp

Load #501

2-3/4 Rem Hull
Win 209
25 gr bluedot
1 Federal Pushin cushin wad with shot petals trimmed off
2, 1/8 nitro cards
373 gr Lee slug, HG
Star crimp

Brenneke 20 ga slugs, factory loads with paper hulls

This first picture has the top 3 holes are load # 500, the two holes together were the first two shots, the high one was the third shot.

The middle 4 holes are the brenneke

The bottom 3 holes are load #501



Load # 701

2-3/4 Rem Hull
Win 209
25 gr bluedot
1 Federal Pushin Cushin-trim off powder cup off bottom of wad
6, 1/8 nitro cards
Trim shot cup off pushin cushin wad and trim petals to height of ball in cup
1 .570 dia lead Round ball
star crimp


Load # 661

2-3/4 Rem hull
win 209
23 gr bluedot
1 Federal pushin cushin wad, powder cup trimmed off
3, 1/8 nitro cards
1 federal pushin cushin shot cup trimmed off (basically put 3 nitro cards where the spirals of the pushin cushin wad are)
1 460 gr 54 cal Maxi ball
star crimp

Load # 626

2-3/4 Rem hull
win 209
25 gr bluedot
1 pushin cushin powder cup, trimmed off
1 1/8 nitro card
1 steel shot cup, trimmed 1/8� longer than sabot with 4 petal slits
342 gr Lyman sabot HG
star crimp

In this picture the first load fired the top most bullet hole is # 701, and directly below it on the same line, 4 inches lower is another # 701 hole. The top one was the second shot, the middle one was the first shot and the third shot is 3 inches down and � to the left of the middle shot.

The left most bullet hole is 661, then one in the middle (with those 3, would have been nice if they were all from the same load!) then one to the far right, 4 inches down and 6 to the right.

Then the final 3 shots make a nice triangle, load # 626.


Load # 624

2-3/4 Rem Hull
win 209
17 gr Herco
Pushin cushin wad
54/50 purple sabot (no base fill)
270 gr Maxi ballet
star crimp

Load # 602

2-3/4 rem hull
win 209
25 gr bluedot
Federal pushin cushin trim off powder cup
2, 1/8 nitro cards
Federal pushin cushin trim off shot cup
54/50 purple sabot HG
331 gr TC maxi ball
star crimp

In the top target the # 624 are the top 3 holes to the right of the target box with the fourth being on the far left all by itself. The really round hole in the top target was one of some other load that only 1 of some load, probably a poor crimp load or something left over that just needed to be shot..

The bottom target and the bottom most three holes are from load # 602.

The hole in the middle is from another group, it has the squiggly lines around it.



Load # 621

2-3/4 Rem hull
win 209
17 gr Herco
Federal Pushin cushin wad
352 gr Lyman Sabot (no base fill)
star crimp

The first shot was 1.5 inches high and .5 inch left of center, second shot up 1 inch and right .5 inch from first hole, third shot was 1 inch to the right and 3 inches high.


Well there it is. Off to do more testing later�