Originally Posted By: Steve Lawson

I plan on evenutally using a similar PSI load in my 16's as found in the data from that I received from the 16 ga reloader's organization.


FYI to Steve and anyone else loading for 16X65s or 16X67s,

ALL the recent 16 gauge Remington (black hulls) and Fiocchi marked hulls I have are actually 67 mm, even though marked 70 mm. These hulls I use unaltered for reloads to be used in 65 and 67 mm chambers. All my old doubles are Husqvarnas (actual 65 mm chambers) or German-made (actual 67 mm chambers), nearly all with the unaltered, nice tight chambers and bores common to such guns. 24 gram (7/8 oz) and 28 gram loads at 1100-1200 fps in 67 mm hulls perform really well in these guns -- as they should, those are the loads these guns were designed for. Ditto for some lightweight Husqvarna and German 12X65-chambered hammer doubles.

Elsewhere on this Board are data giving chamber pressures for the Remington and Fiocchi 16 gauge shotshells. I know that the factory Remington shotshells with 28 grams shot and actual 67 mm hulls have chamber pressures well above 10.000 psi, but, think I recall that the chamber pressures of the Fiocchi 28 gram loads are well below that.

Niklas