Home Forums Reloading 16 Gauge Society Winchester Super X hulls

I am back into owning and hunting with a 16 gauge (a J. Blanch double). Really enjoying it. Since I bought the gun, I have been using 1 oz Winchester Super X loads of #89's at 1165 fps for hunting and clays. Now that I have saved a few hundred hulls, I am thinking about how to reload them. I would like a bit lower pressure and perhaps 3/4 or 7/8 oz of shot. Its hard for me to be sure what hull to choose from reloading tables. Are the Universal hulls, Cheddittes's or something else? I have limited reloading experience, mostly churning out lots of common target recipes for 12 and 20 ga AA hulls. If I cannot be sure what I am working with, maybe I need to buy some once fired hulls of some other type. Any input is greatly appreciated.

SC those 16ga hulls same as 12 ga and 20 ga AA's or are they straight wall hulls? BP makes short shot cup wads for straight wall hulls and if they are the old AA style I would use claybuster 16 ga wads with a fiber or card filler wads in the bottom of the cup. Mb

M-B, I dont much about that. I doubt they are like the old AA's. They have a slight ribbed texture on the outside, not smooth like the AA's. I would not know how to say they are or are not straight walled. Umm, I suppose I would measure that somehow.

SC ribbed are the straight wall hull with rolled paper basewads in the old expert/ ranger hull while the newer straight wall hulls have pressed in plastic basewad. The 16 ga AA style was stamped Upland and is a 1piece compression formed hull like 12 & 20 ga AA's. Sounds like you need to get on the Ballistic Products website and look at their low volume 16ga sporting wads. MB

MB, by basewad do you mean the piece of plastic at the bottom of the hull that surrounds the primer?

Yup, all the compression formed hulls were 1 piece and maybe the last of them made 10 years a go. If the outer hull wall is ribbed it is a straight wall hull go to ballistic products for your wads or maybe Precision reloading online would have something like you need. MB

I would caution you about using Ballistic Products 16 ga data. I tried their 16 ga reloading manual. The stack height was way off on several loads, so the manual was recycled.