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< 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ 2.5 inch pressure test |
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Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:11 pm
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Location: Mesquite, TX.
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I got a 2.5 inch load form a friend and I had Tom Armbrust test tehm.
The results were
Cheddite hull cut down to 2.5
Cheddite 209 primer
19.2 GR. Solo 1250
Gualande 1621 wad
7/8oz shot.
High pressure was 10,000 in one round
Low pressure was 9000 in one round
The othere three were 9500, 9600 and 9700.
I also sent the same load in Fioccai hulls and the pressure was
12100 for the high and 11400 for the low. Other three were inbetween these
The Federal hull was at 10400 for the high and 9400 for the low.
A Winghester two peice hull was 12400 for the highest and 11400 for the low.
Alll powder was weighed indivudally for each round. All were 6 point crimps and loaded on the same day so atmospheric conditions were teh same.
This was supposed to be a llight load but it is obviously not.
Do any of you guys have a reciepe for a 2.5 load using Solo powder?
Maybe I am doing something wrong but I sure don't know what it is.
My loader is virtually new with only 25 shells loaded in it.
Any suggestions would help.
Regards, Gordon |
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Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:46 pm
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What's wrong with the loads in the Federal and Cheddite hulls, those are well within safe PSI? They also seem very consistent, at least on the pressure side of things.
There is nothing wrong. If you want lower pressures you have to drop the powder charge 1 - 2 grains. If you want them a lot lower you will have to switch to another powder, one that burns a bit slower.
Your reloader and it being old or new has nothing to do with anything as long as the crimp is between 1/32" and 1/16" deep, no swirl, no convexity and no concavity, which from the consistent pressures is probably not the case.
Sir, you just developed 2 nice loads, take a bit of powder out of the other 2 loads and you will have 4 nice loads. As long as the velocities are as consistent as the pressures, you did a nice job!! |
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Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:00 pm
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I forgot to post the velocities
Cheddite from 1243 to 1269
Fiocchi from 1251 to 1298
Federal from 1253 to 1277
Winchester from 1286 to1321
Good advice on lowering the powder 2 grains. I will do this and have tehm retested.
Regards, Gordon |
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Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:32 pm
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The Cheddite and Federal hull loads are very nice, keep up the good work. |
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Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:38 am
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Location: Michigan
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You may want to try some SR-7625 powder if your looking for low pressure loads. Or try some "known" low pressure load data. |
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Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:00 am
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Joined: 17 Nov 2005
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Location: NW Florida
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I use your exact load except 16gr of Green Dot. I am awaiting test results on 16gr of GD, RGL cut to 2.5in, 7/8oz in a 20ga claybuster wad with a cheddite primer. Will post results when received. Bob |
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Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:45 am
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Gordon nice loads for those high flying Texas doves but I agree with DC on dropping the powder charge by a couple of grains for your clays and quail load.
I'm surprised at the large difference between the pressures of the Cheddite and Winchester hulls. When you wrote Winchester 2 piece are you referring to the current production hulls coming from Australia? |
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Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:01 am
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Just a note for all of the folks that like to switch components, and don't think that there is any effect. If you will notice, when the pressures went up to 12,000+ PSI, the velocity EV went up also. While 12,000 PSI is not going to hurt a modern firearm, the consistency of the load went away.
Now the hull used might have something to do with the velocity variations also, but again switching stuff changes ballistics. In this case it was a hull change.
Just for a reference point when building and testing loads, keep the velocity EV at 35 FPS or less and the pressure EV at 1,500 PSI or less. Those are good standards to use. If a target load doesn't conform to these standards, try another primer, if that doesn't work, a new powder/primer combination is in order. These are relatively easy parameters to go by when building light field/target loads. Remember these are generally five shot data strings that we are having tested, if you don't keep tight performance specs things will get ugly fast. A good target/light field load will easily pass a 10 or 20 shot data string using these parameters.
As far as pressure goes, as long as it averages at or under max of 11,500 PSI, use the load. I can't overstate it enough that a little bit of pressure smooths out the variations, and generally has no effect on patterns and is NOT a component of recoil. |
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Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:56 pm
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Twice Barrel
Yes the Winchester hull was the Australian ones. |
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Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:16 am
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dogchaser37 wrote: |
As far as pressure goes, as long as it averages at or under max of 11,500 PSI, use the load. I can't overstate it enough that a little bit of pressure smooths out the variations, and generally has no effect on patterns and is NOT a component of recoil.
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Dogchaser37, how can you say that pressure is NOT a component of recoil?
Velocity is, and you can't have one without the other.
Two loads using the same components, except one is 1150 FPS @ 7200 PSI
will have less recoil than that load at 1350 FPS @ 10500 PSI. |
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Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:39 am
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Dogchaser37, how can you say that pressure is NOT a component of recoil?
Velocity is, and you can't have one without the other.
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Dave,
Actually you sometimes can have your cake and eat it too.
This from Hodgdon reloading manual:
Federal hull Universal powder 1oz shot 1220fps 8200psi
Federal hull Longshot powder 1oz shot 1300fps 8100psi
I KNOW the Longshot load will generate more recoil than the Universal. And it's not from pressure......
Jeff |
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Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:14 am
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jchandler wrote: |
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Dogchaser37, how can you say that pressure is NOT a component of recoil?
Velocity is, and you can't have one without the other.
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Dave,
Actually you sometimes can have your cake and eat it too.
This from Hodgdon reloading manual:
Federal hull Universal powder 1oz shot 1220fps 8200psi
Federal hull Longshot powder 1oz shot 1300fps 8100psi
I KNOW the Longshot load will generate more recoil than the Universal. And it's not from pressure......
Jeff
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That data is the exception, and not the normal rule.
Plus you changed components.
Also, the average person will never feel the difference between 80 FPS.
Most loads will have that much deviation between them.
But you made your point. |
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Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:03 am
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Dave,
The major componenets of recoil are, gun weight, ejecta weight and ejecta velocity. There are other considerations but pressure isn't one of them.
I am referring to actual measured recoil and not felt recoil. Felt recoil is subjective and I am not now nor will I ever comment on felt recoil.
I didn't do the testing, Winchester-Olin did the testing way back in the 1960's, with E.D. Lowry as the ballistician. |
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Posted:
Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:49 am
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Gordon Disharoon wrote: |
Twice Barrel
Yes the Winchester hull was the Australian ones.
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Wow with an increase in pressure of 2400 psi between the Cheddite and Winchester hulls perhaps we had better rethink substituting load data between the Cheddite and Winchester hulls that have been proclaimed to be a Cheddite.
Gordon would you mind calling Tom and confirming this data. |
Last edited by Twice Barrel on Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:43 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Posted:
Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:54 am
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Mark,
I agree with what you said: The major componenets of recoil are, gun weight, ejecta weight and ejecta velocity.
However under most situations you can't increase the velocity, of a givin weight, without increasing the pressure. So you normally don't have an increase in one, without an increase of the other. Just my opinion, and you can always find an exception to any rule. |
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