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Remembering the Older Days of Reloading/Shooting
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<blockquote data-quote="del2les" data-source="post: 2773776" data-attributes="member: 9299"><p>I think most have, at least if they have loaded long enough. Back in my very young and beginning years of shotshell reloading, which was the first reloading I ever did, my brother and I were planning on a never before attempted Canadian goose hunt at a nearby lake shore. Only having #4 shot as the largest on hand, these were the old days of lead shot for waterfowl, I decided to buy few boxes of copper plated BB's. Those old half-pint milk box sizes once sold by Daisy. Well, in my youthful exuberance and ignorance, I simply loaded those lighter copper plated steel BB's into my routine duck load wads and Blue Dot powder charge thinking everything was just fine.</p><p></p><p>Once that exciting morning arrived, we began to ignorantly "sky bust" those high flying geese. I noticed that my shells would, ever-so-often, give a strange sound and low recoil. Not to be denied the excitement of my first possible goose kill with several geese flying around, I kept shooting. I noticed one shot had much less sound and I could even see the BB's flying through the air. No matter, I fired another that really kicked and thought, that was different. By then, it was time to reload the old pump 12ga, and then I noticed the barrel just behind the choke section was bulged but still functional. However, that ended my hunt. I did go on to use that barrel for several years for field usage, but eventually decided to replace it with the then new screw-in choke replacement barrel.</p><p></p><p>That taught me to research my reloading failure, and learned steel BB shot was lighter and needed either a larger payload to equal lead weight or a different powder for better ignition. Youthful lesson learned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="del2les, post: 2773776, member: 9299"] I think most have, at least if they have loaded long enough. Back in my very young and beginning years of shotshell reloading, which was the first reloading I ever did, my brother and I were planning on a never before attempted Canadian goose hunt at a nearby lake shore. Only having #4 shot as the largest on hand, these were the old days of lead shot for waterfowl, I decided to buy few boxes of copper plated BB's. Those old half-pint milk box sizes once sold by Daisy. Well, in my youthful exuberance and ignorance, I simply loaded those lighter copper plated steel BB's into my routine duck load wads and Blue Dot powder charge thinking everything was just fine. Once that exciting morning arrived, we began to ignorantly "sky bust" those high flying geese. I noticed that my shells would, ever-so-often, give a strange sound and low recoil. Not to be denied the excitement of my first possible goose kill with several geese flying around, I kept shooting. I noticed one shot had much less sound and I could even see the BB's flying through the air. No matter, I fired another that really kicked and thought, that was different. By then, it was time to reload the old pump 12ga, and then I noticed the barrel just behind the choke section was bulged but still functional. However, that ended my hunt. I did go on to use that barrel for several years for field usage, but eventually decided to replace it with the then new screw-in choke replacement barrel. That taught me to research my reloading failure, and learned steel BB shot was lighter and needed either a larger payload to equal lead weight or a different powder for better ignition. Youthful lesson learned. [/QUOTE]
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