Home Forums Birds & Dogs Turkey Hunting Let's see those magic fAiry dust patterns.

Looks like a nickle standing next to a dime to me....

Maybe should set a #2 steel pellet next in line so we can see how much better steel is than lead. Cause it's bigger.

pullit, the picture of your TSS shot looks much better than the picture of the little 2 pound tin on the Ballistic Products web page. I got rid of so much stuff, might be time to re-invest in a 20ga press and start "hoarding" the components to go with it! Lol!

Thats about $2000 worth of the dust....about 400 rds ?

You don't need a shotgun reloading press to load TSS....you don't even need to know anything about handloading.

All you really need is a roll crimping tool an electrictic drill and a set of Lee powder dippers....if you want to get fancy you can buy a powder scale but it is not a requirement....a piece of dowel rod to push your wad in.

You buy new Priimed hulls like he pictured some Nitro cards, plastic wads, and fAiry dust, some Grex buffer....and over shot cards.

TSS can make a mOron into a custom handloader, ballistic X'spurt and physicist all rolled into one literally over night.

Fist Cardinal rule of handloading is don't do it in a cluttered up place like pullet pictured.

I don't reload there

I've accumulated 4 boxes of 20g Federal #9 TSS and 4 boxes of 20g #7 TSS. I also have a few new boxes of Winchester XX 3" #5s. Weather is supposed to be decent tomorrow. I'll post some target pics later tomorrow.

I suspect that BPS is going to shoot high so I'm going to run the XX through it first to see where it's hitting. I'm only going to sacrifice one box each of #9 and #7 if I can help it. Even in 20 gauge it's $50 a box for five rounds.

100 yard #4 lead patterned target, 5 shots...






LOL! Sorry! Very cold, very slow morning! Happy Friday everyone and just wanted to show off my new targets. Never used anything this fancy before. It's the simple things sometimes...

Funny man...lol

LOL! You can use the same target for several seasons that way.

So what's the richotte danger with TSS? My club has a dedicated shotgun patterning range that I'll be using. There's a bunch of steel targets out there for various pusposes. Seems like I'll need to take extra precautions. Steel on steel bounces like crazy. I suspect TSS will be the same.

I think you are ok unless the steel is real close

At my gun club only 7.5 "lead" or smaller shot is allowed on the steel pattern plate....same goes for shotguns on the Cowboy and the Action pistol range.

Like pullet says you'll probably be okay....

Guess he doesn't know it can ricochet straight back at you...it's about the right velocity to ricochet.

You'll be fine.....Worst case scenario it bounces back and glances off your hard boiled head and hits someone else.

Yeah. That's GOOD !!!!

Maybe this could be the start of something................ A Turkey Forum 100 yard #4 challenge !!! I mean.........we KNOW who'd win. But there could be props given for 2nd and 3rd places, right ???

Only guy stupid enough to shoot that far shoots TSS.....

Nah !!!!

I'm stupid enough.

Weather breaks, I'll have to root around and see if I can find some #4 lead dinosaurs from the past and some of those spiffy turkey targets. Kinda got my curiosity up, now.

40 yards
Win Longbeard

What choke?

Yep. That's more of what I'm talkin' about. What shot size is that ??

True story.........the VERY FIRST time I shot a Longbeard XR was a #6 and it ended up being 44 yards (40 of my steps.......didn't laser it like usual). I walked to the target and all I could say was "HOLY SCHIDT !!!".......over and over. And I said it out loud...............and I was by myself. I honestly never even did a pellet count. Had never seen anything like it, not even close, not EVER.

The punishing returns of a 3-1/2" turkey shell?