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I am about to take my great gandfather's 10 ga British sidelock (with 2 7/8" chambers) and Damascus off the wall for a round or two at the skeet range. Wall thickness is in excess of .040 and bores are bright so I don't have any concerns there. Any suggestions for loads would be most appreciated. BTW, it's a Sam Buckley duck gun, with 32" barrels lots of drop to the relatively short stock and will probably kick like a mule. Many thanks!
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Just call RST and buy some from them. I've used their short 10 gauge loads with great success and they're all damascus friendly.
Destry
Out there at the crossroads molding the devil's bullets. - Tom Waits
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I use 31 gr. 7625 with 1 1/4 oz shot in my Parker and Daly 10 ga.
About 1150 ft/sec and low pressure
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Skeet load works great: Load and testing developed by Sherman Bell and Tom Armbrust for the articles in DGJ.
Rem Hull marked Nitro Steel Magnum, Win 209 Primer, 23grains of Clays powder, Rem SP10 plastic wad with 16ga fillers inside the cup to bring standard 6 point crimp up to level with 1oz of shot. (I place over the shot a piece of stiff paper to prevent dribbling of shot.) Hull has to be cut back to your chamber dimensions - adjust the 16ga inserts accordingly. The unprimed Remington hull Precision Reloading usually sells is same hull only not marked as Nitro Steel Mag.
Velocity is 1230 fps approx and Pressure is 6300 psi as tested. This load far out performed any expectations I ever had about 1oz load in a 10ga. You will love it and I don't recall any recoil with it in a 9lb gun.
Of course you need to use a reloader for these. I used the Mec single stage with blocks to adjust for short hulls.
Last edited by Jerry V Lape; 04/21/08 03:51 PM.
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The MEC 600Jr in 10 gauge that I have is settable to either 3-1/2" or 2-7/8" by the same mechanism that the 12 and 20 600s use to go from 3" to 2-3/4".
The center post, where it mounts into the lower frame, has two threaded holes in it. Juggling between those two threaded holes in the post and the two holes in the base gives you the option of two shell lengths.
I was surprised to find that the 10 was set up to switch between 3-1/2" and 2-7/8", but most pleasantly so. Light ten loads are great!
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Mr. Russell, if you send me your email address, I have a spreadsheet of 10 ga 2 7/8 inch loads (mostly low pressure loads) that Tom Armbrust developed a few years ago. I will send it to you. Jim Haynes,
jhaynes1@flash.net
Jim Haynes
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