Stan, have you loaded any of the Alliant MP -300? I used it for early season dove and recently on two quail hunts. It worked very well with good velocity and low pressures. Some of theses 3" .410 loads can be a little slow (1050-1100fps). It is 1200 fps not the Skeet shooters norm of 1300 plus that smokes clay targets. But it does pattern well and gave good clean kills. I know your guns are modern and fully capable of dealing with highs pressures but I have found many of those type loads pattern poorly and the .410 is one gun you can not afford poorly pattern ammo.
It also works well in the 28 ga.. I used it last year pass shooting doves late season and found it to be amazing. So good that I thought I might have learned how to shoot better just by reading of Mr. Woods fine shooting progress under the gentle tutoring he is getting.
No, I haven't, Jon. Really have only loaded a few hundred 2 1/2" shells, and those mainly because a friend gave me a MEC 8567N a couple years ago. I don't shoot a lot of 2 1/2" stuff, mainly for clays every now and then. For me, the ultimate use of a .410 is doves and quail ............. and there I really prefer the 11/16 oz. load of the 3" shell.
Bill, It's not only that I wouldn't really want to take the time to roll crimp 12-15 boxes of 3" shells, but it's that, as Gil said, once is about it for them. I used to load a few 2 7/8" 10 ga. shells and roll crimp them, but it wasn't but a few. You don't shoot many shells at turkeys. I can see myself using this new 30" Dickinson .410 a lot on doves in the future. But .......... I also am not going to spend nearly $300 bucks, or more, on a reloader to load 300-400 shells a year.
SRH
