jehler wrote:dnj21 wrote:I bought a couple hundred last fall for loading ITX 13 and didn't have any problems, but I bought them new and haven't tried to reload any yet......
how do you like that itx-13? its hard like heavy shot right, not as soft as the regular itx?
I wish I had shot enough ducks last year to say definitively. Had a barn burner on opening day and didn't hardly shoot any ducks the rest of the year. On the bright side, I didn't miss a lot of ducks with it!
It is very hard, lot of guys use mylar wraps in them like HSS but I haven't yet. Typical dense/hard shot, tight patterns even out of IC chokes. Loaded FGM hulls with 35 or 36 gr of STEEL and 1 1/4oz of 6's around 1395-1450fps for the most part (off the top of my head). Wanted to play with slitting the SAM1 wads down farther and more evenly this summer and see if it would open patterns a little, but with a one year old running around I didn't get to it (I now reload in one hour windows after everyone is in bed when I can stay awake!!)
Toasty & Bug Doc have a lot more experience with the heavy non-tox loads, but I haven't seen them migrate over here yet........
Dave