| Author |
Message |
| < 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ wads |
|
 Posted:
Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:40 pm
|
|
|
Joined: 16 Apr 2008
Posts: 9
|
|
Can anyone tell me what is the best all around wad for 1 ounce and 11/8 ounce loads , and for tapered and staraight walled cases.
I have been loading with hodgon 6 and I think i am getting powder migration with my winchester wads as I have many misfires, and I think the migration problem may be the answer.
Does anyone think that it may be that I need a hotter primer as I am using cc209s. Could this be my problem? Thanks
 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| Posted:
Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:54 pm
|
|
|
Joined: 09 Jul 2009
Posts: 510
Location: Central CT
|
|
| Would be best if you gave us the exact components and powder and shot weights. Then someone can help you out. |
_________________
Mark, Dogchaser37 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Posted:
Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:38 pm
|
|
|
Joined: 16 Apr 2008
Posts: 9
|
|
| thanks I will get the exact specs that i was loading . i thought that i would remember them but cant remember the exact grains and which cases i tried them on. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Posted:
Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:12 pm
|
|
|
Joined: 16 Apr 2008
Posts: 9
|
|
sorry it took me awhile to get back, its a cold nasty winter here in northern montana and my cows need looking after with a lot of snow to plow.
I am loading green fiochi polyformed cases with 27.5 grains of hogdon hs6 and 1 1/8 ounces of #5 lead and cci 209m primer with sp16 wad. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Posted:
Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:28 am
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 06 Oct 2007
Posts: 2352
Location: West MI
|
|
Hello, don't know about the best all around wad, but, just measured the gas seal OD of one of the Rem wads and the ID of a new unfired Fiocchi hull and there is ~0.050" difference in the wrong direction, in a past post someone referred to this situation as the wad "rattling around in there like a BB in a boxcar" the SG16 wad fits in there nice and snug but wouldn't fully protect/contain a shot charge of 1-1 1/8oz.
Since messing w/cows and plowing should be a pretty close approximation of the movements a shell sees during a hunt, it seems to me that maybe a simple check for migration would be to put couple of your shells in your Carhartt's in the morning and cut them open at the end of the day.
A few folks around here use little pieces of clingy plastic food wrap under the gas seal to halt migration but I've never tried it. There has to be a wad that will fit your needs without all that fiddling around. I know the BP catalog lists the gas seal dimensions of most if not all their wads.
http://www.ballisticproducts.com/16-gauge-wads/products/88/
I'm certain someone will chime in here with a wad that will do the job, good luck, Mike |
_________________
Sorry, I'm a Duck Hunter so shouldn't be held strictly responsible for my actions between Oct 1st and ice up. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
