Being a skeet shooter the .410 is the gun that I am drawn to when things get boring. Seeing how expensive .410 target shells are, as well as 28ga shells, you almost have to reload to shoot these small gauges in any quantity.
I had been loading a .410 AA shell with 296 powder, a winchester 209 primer, and claybuster 1/2oz wads. This was my load for years until I ran out of the 8# keg that I had been using on for the last two or three years. I couldn't find any on the shelf anywhere. So I started trying the new powder "Lil' gun" from Hodgden. I was trying all different combinations of loads but couldn't make it work for me the way I thought it should. After talking too several other shooters that had the same problem I scrapped the Idea of using this powder.
My club had some brand new powder from Alliant on the shelf called "410". With a little experimenting and some guidelines from their website I got a nice shell turned out for a target load.
Now for all the warnings: CAUTION: The following post includes loading data not currently published for this cartridge. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Neither the writer, The High Road, nor the staff of THR assume any liability for any damage or injury resulting from use of this information.
Considering there was only about 4-5 loads that the website had shown because this powder is so new.
I was using the older AA target hulls, a Winchester 209 primer, with 1/2oz wads from "Nothin' but Dust" a wad almost identical to claybuster wads, but a bit cheaper, and 1/2oz of hard 9's. I am dropping 11.4 grains of Alliant 410 powder in my Mec Grabber.
I have not chronographed these but am guessing they are about 1180fps. I used these shells this past weekend to shoot 175 birds breaking 172 of them. 3 rounds on saturday and 4 rounds on sunday. They all sounded very consistant with very hard breaks on the skeet targets.
Any out there that reload for the pipsqueak gun I know would appreciate this load.
As any reloader I do this in order to save money so I can shoot more.
I had been loading a .410 AA shell with 296 powder, a winchester 209 primer, and claybuster 1/2oz wads. This was my load for years until I ran out of the 8# keg that I had been using on for the last two or three years. I couldn't find any on the shelf anywhere. So I started trying the new powder "Lil' gun" from Hodgden. I was trying all different combinations of loads but couldn't make it work for me the way I thought it should. After talking too several other shooters that had the same problem I scrapped the Idea of using this powder.
My club had some brand new powder from Alliant on the shelf called "410". With a little experimenting and some guidelines from their website I got a nice shell turned out for a target load.
Now for all the warnings: CAUTION: The following post includes loading data not currently published for this cartridge. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Neither the writer, The High Road, nor the staff of THR assume any liability for any damage or injury resulting from use of this information.
Considering there was only about 4-5 loads that the website had shown because this powder is so new.
I was using the older AA target hulls, a Winchester 209 primer, with 1/2oz wads from "Nothin' but Dust" a wad almost identical to claybuster wads, but a bit cheaper, and 1/2oz of hard 9's. I am dropping 11.4 grains of Alliant 410 powder in my Mec Grabber.
I have not chronographed these but am guessing they are about 1180fps. I used these shells this past weekend to shoot 175 birds breaking 172 of them. 3 rounds on saturday and 4 rounds on sunday. They all sounded very consistant with very hard breaks on the skeet targets.
Any out there that reload for the pipsqueak gun I know would appreciate this load.
As any reloader I do this in order to save money so I can shoot more.
