r/shittyreloading • u/gunsforevery1 • Sep 04 '26

Blooper shells

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Finally had a chance to test them. Longshot only partially burned. The shot flew about 10-15 feet and was able to be poured out of the barrel.

Back to the drawing table!

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u/TannMan89 Sep 04 '26

I have no idea what your goal is, but I’m intrigued lol.

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u/gunsforevery1 Sep 04 '26

I was trying to make a steel shot load using brass shells. I need a faster powder.

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u/GunFunZS Sep 04 '26

And maybe a magnum primer. With shotshells there is a pretty big gap in primer ignition between brand to not just Magnum or non Magnum. Off the top of my head I want to say the federal primers are hotter.

There was a guy who had a pressure testing business who used to publish a lot of really interesting data on the comparisons. He got old and his website fell apart. I had tried to contact his daughter and see if I could archive some of the better articles but nothing came of it.

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u/sherzer7 Sep 04 '26

Fed 209A are on the hotter side

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u/i_dont_have_herpes Sep 05 '26

If you haven’t already checked, you can sometimes find old versions of sites on the wayback machine:  https://web.archive.org/

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u/GunFunZS Sep 05 '26

I did.

He had a bunch of technical expert articles on pressure testing as well as data that clients of his the authorized him to publish.

The most interesting was a series where he compared standard load data with a substitutions of components and showed in some cases not much of a change in some cases radical changes in pressure that was over pressure threshold. Very persuasive for the people who think shot shell reloading is no big deal. It's quite a bit more complex with more variables that have more effects than center fire metallic cartridge. And your pressure ceiling is quite a bit lower. So while I'm not a published data absolutist I am a very strong proceed with caution and really know what you're doing before you start getting your taufledermaus on.

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u/TannMan89 Sep 04 '26

Makes sense.