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Want to load up some lighter 6's for upland and 9's for skeet with the boys.
I have gun club and AA hulls, a bunch of red dot & clays pink0175, and a few cci, remington and win 209 primers.
Been a while since i reloaded.
I dug around a little and find nothing with red dot and the clays wads with lighter 3/4 or 7/8 oz loads.
Anyone have a recipe or am I SOL with red dot?
Primary interest is to use what I have and end up with a low recoiling lighter load.
I was never too much for creative load recipes, so I figured I'd ask here.
TIA
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Have you looked on Alliant’s website? AlliantThey have lots of loads for AA and Gun Club loads in 3/4 and 7/8 oz.
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Ditto the Alliant website. IIRC, Claybuster includes data on the back side of the label inside each bag of wads?
Alliant Extra-Lite is excellent for 3/4 oz stuff. But have loaded thousands with Red Dot for youth events, and for light 12s cuz I'm a wuss.
Of those mentioned the Win 209 is hotter, will generally leave less unburned powder.
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Have you looked on Alliant’s website? AlliantThey have lots of loads for AA and Gun Club loads in 3/4 and 7/8 oz. Yes, its the 2nd pace I looked. Nothing for red dot lite loads with CB pinks and any of the hulls, which seems like it'd be a rather common combo of supplies.
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Does the link for everyone? Claybuster site is giving me a "claybuster site refuse to connect" message that I rarely if ever have gotten before.
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I got that message on chrome, but no problem on firefox. No idea why. Kinda a dinosaur re tech stuff. If you can't get it off a different browser PM me will email pdf copy.
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I got that message on chrome, but no problem on firefox. No idea why. Kinda a dinosaur re tech stuff. If you can't get it off a different browser PM me will email pdf copy. Yep, you nailed it. FFox opened fine. Going to look it over now. Much appreciated.
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Your challenge with these lighter loads is getting enough pressure for reliable ignition. I have used Red Dot, Clays, Clay Dot, Promo for loads such as these and 18 gr of any of them with the CB wads (I like the gray 7/8 oz wads) and 7/8 oz of shot works well. I use these wads in Rem STS cases, so slight reduction for AA would work out. Gun Clubs should be treated as STS, same shape and capacity.
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18 grains is what I would use. Your challenge with these lighter loads is getting enough pressure for reliable ignition. I have used Red Dot, Clays, Clay Dot, Promo for loads such as these and 18 gr of any of them with the CB wads (I like the gray 7/8 oz wads) and 7/8 oz of shot works well. I use these wads in Rem STS cases, so slight reduction for AA would work out. Gun Clubs should be treated as STS, same shape and capacity. I would use 18 grains as well.
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I loaded up 10 each of 15, 16.5, and 18 grains of RD using the CB0175 wads, GunClubs and W209 primers. 3/4 oz #9 shot. I am going to unload them all at some pattern boards and see how each works out for me. I think the 18 grain load is going to be screaming along.
They crimped up well enough. We'll see.
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Interested to see your results. Have no problem going as low as 16.5 gr (I substitute Promo), chronos about 1200 fps with a Win 209. Load it for youth events in a 12.
Mostly load 17.1 gr for SC with #8 or #8.5, like it fine.
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