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OK, best of luck with it.

BPI 5/8oz TiteWad data suggests a drop in the low 20's with a different wad gets you in the high 1500-low 1600 10.5+k range.

If I were looking for what you are (1350) I'd split the difference and s ...

Do you have or can you get any Green Dot? If you do a search (top left under the 16ga logo masthead) on this forum for GD you'll find a bunch of info on what you're looking for. Seems to me ~15gr of n ...

Assuming you're taking the gun to a smith to do the opening; does that shop have a patterning board? Or will they open it incrementally and allow you to go pattern the gun & load between increment ...

Not certain of current pricing, maybe give Mr. Armbrust a call or look at the Precision link for details.

Although enjoying the 870' & BPS' most these days. But always circle back and enjoy most my wedding gift 16ga Citori Upland Special....reminds me of a Lyle Lovett tune;

She's as cute as a bug, ...

We get several fishing PP emails a week and just delete them.

FWIW; being a recent victim of check fraud we're moving away from mailed checks. USPS seems to be the culprit. The one vendor said a ba ...

Recently found some of an old favorite, Herco. Published Lymans 5th, IMO mimics the original RGL load;

Rem 16, 1oz, Herco 20.0, Rem 209P, Rem SP-16, 1253, 10,600

I swap in Win or Ched209's, wor ...

Great, you're further along than originally lead onto.

Are you aware of Tom Armbrust or Precision Reloading' testing services? If you come up with a "wildcat" load extrapolated or coales ...

Understood, I too enjoy making stuff.

FWIW; no need to completely copy the previous response, simply responding in continuous order is fine.

Have you read any books on reloading shot shells? If ...

OK, you're in a good place, a lot of reloading experience hanging around this forum. Getting into reloading shogun in general or just the 16ga specifically?

I'm about a year+ deeper down the 16ga s ...

Thanks for sharing those dims.

The tapered dimensions from the top to bottom bands might fit well in the ClayBuster clone of the WAA-16 wad. CB wads have tapered ribs molded in the petals where th ...

Hello hardtop68, welcome aboard and to your first posting. Appreciate the heads-up on As-Molds, haven't run across them to date. Been researching the Russian molds and all things 16ga slug related.
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Plus the SP16' OB cup is next to impossible to flare being so shallow.

Agreed, and if wanting to tighten it up for follow ups use a buffered load for a little more reach.