berettaprofessor
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Please enlighten me; I've loaded rifle and pistol for nearly a decade now and I'm used to the drill; find something similar to your bullet, look at a chart that suggests a minimum and maximum charge of your chosen powder for that bullet, and then, if you need to, do a powder ladder and refine your load.
But shotgun reloaders everywhere are adamant to stay strictly to specific recipes...and it's dangerous or supposedly dangerous, to substitute even another brand of hulls! 9mm reloading or 308, the Hodgdon manual doesn't specify the brass and demand you use no other brass manufacturer or primer maker within the minimum and maximum loads. Wad types, I can understand would affect the load, but why can't there be a similar chart for shotgun as for rifle reloading? One that gives a minimum and maximum charge of H110, for pushing 1/2 oz of shot out of a 410 hull...any hull. Heck, specifically with 410, the wads seem to be completely all the same, so why aren't their charts that say "1/2 oz loads of H110 start at 14 grains and go to 16 grains" and use any hull, 209-like primer, and wad combo you want?
Just doesn't make a lot of sense to me, especially when every rifle is loaded to far higher pressures than most any shotgun comes near.
But shotgun reloaders everywhere are adamant to stay strictly to specific recipes...and it's dangerous or supposedly dangerous, to substitute even another brand of hulls! 9mm reloading or 308, the Hodgdon manual doesn't specify the brass and demand you use no other brass manufacturer or primer maker within the minimum and maximum loads. Wad types, I can understand would affect the load, but why can't there be a similar chart for shotgun as for rifle reloading? One that gives a minimum and maximum charge of H110, for pushing 1/2 oz of shot out of a 410 hull...any hull. Heck, specifically with 410, the wads seem to be completely all the same, so why aren't their charts that say "1/2 oz loads of H110 start at 14 grains and go to 16 grains" and use any hull, 209-like primer, and wad combo you want?
Just doesn't make a lot of sense to me, especially when every rifle is loaded to far higher pressures than most any shotgun comes near.