In this Video I am showing you the way that I like to Prep, load and Roll crimp my black powder shot shells. that you could also try with smokeless. using nothing but hand tools. I hope you enjoy, and maybe find something useful.
Dusty - Enjoyed the video! I'm also a Cowboy Action Shooter. I'm a member of the Wartrace Regulators in Wartrace, TN. I've been trying to do some roll crimping on my 12 ga shells with smokeless powder and 3/4 oz shot. You've given me some great ideas. Might even try black powder one of these days.
Good video Dusty, I just started playing with shotgun loading, buckshot & slugs. I also have a box of 28 Ga & .410 brass shells but I need a few more components before I load them. I have an antique 12 gauge roll crimper, still need a 20 gauge one as well as the hand priming tools for both. Funny how the list of cool old tools never gets any shorter.Thanks, Mike.
I’ve used fiber wads over a playing card with another over it for 40 years with absolutely no problems, it’s the way my grandfather did it and that’s how I learned… I’ve used News paper even a time or ten
Great video Dusty; fun to watch your techniques. I do pretty much the exact same things except I use a 4.3cc Lee dipper to measure my 65 grains of BP and I don't have a roll crimper so I just use a hot glue gun to seal the overshot card in. Seems to work great as well.
I made my buckshot loads with 80g 2F with a thin over powder card a ball of flax tow for a cushion and another thin cardboard disk. Then I used 9 .31 balls with cream of wheat as a buffer with a final thin over shot card. Sealed the end with candle wax. Did not have a roll crimper. The pattern from each round was almost identical to a factory Remington 2.75 - 00 buck round. The round I made was identical to my flintlock load. Shotguns are forgiving use what you have.
I've used a 12ga choke sharpened to punch out cards from clear plastic about as thick as a coke bottle plastic and used it over my shot so I can look and see what's loaded in that particular shell.
*THANK YOU FOR THE DEMO. I HOPE YOU RECOVERED FROM ILLNESS. SOME OF US happen to prefer a deeper or taller roll crimp... for a more positive card retention seal and to avoid overshot card being cut by any sharp edges on the face of the rotary roll crimp tools. As a matter of fact , because MOST Canadian coins are steel or steel with copper insert... A COIN might make a good primer seater tool. Would that be a good and practical use for coins ?*
I don't have a chronograph At the moment I would like to get one and test a bunch of stuff. I find blackpowder in shockun pretty mild. Less concussive force. But equal damage For lead. Thanks for watching!
I've gotten the impression from reading that you shouldn't load black powder in plastic hulls -- every recommendation I can find suggests obtaining paper hulls, as well as avoiding plastic wad components. Does this melt your hulls and make them not reusable again, or is it not a problem?
I reload plastic hulls with BP, no more than twice. They are pretty toasted by then. I pick up used shotcups and use it on top of a nitro card and cushion wad. I don't use the plastic shotcup with the piston and gas seal attached as those probably would melt. I do what is called a Square Load. A measure that holds 1oz of shot, same measure for a volume of BP.
There seems to be a lot more BP substitutes on the shelves for me locally... I've been loading traditional style 16 gauge loads with 777 FFG rifle/shotgun powder... 60-65 grains, hard nitro card, waxed cushion wad, thin overshot card, 1 ounce of shot, roll crimped with BPI 16 gauge overshot card... I think it's a 2.5 dram load rated to 1250 FPS. Fun to shoot in my old Stevens model 94C
