Reloading non-Tox for ducks

rummer said:
Come on there must be someone who can point me in the right direction .I have checked out all of the ideas that were posted but somone must know . I realize that it will cost lots of $ to reload but , the way it looks right now it looks like I'm stuck with shooting steel and having average results with it .I gues I'll stick with what I've been using and pick up a few boxes of something else , like hevi shot ,bismuth or maybe even switch to black cloud .Any thoughts ?
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Have you patterned your steel loads to see what the shot pattern looks like? Get some big pieces of cardboard or paper, set them up at the distance you shoot birds at and see what you get. I tried 2 loads that were ballistically identical (1-3/8oz, BB @1400fps), one gave a decent, usable pattern, the other was terrible with 3 or 4 pellets clumped together in spots and huge gaps in others. Try a few different loads and choke tubes till you find a good combination, then buy shells by the flat (10 boxes of 25 to a flat) to save some $$. If you do end up rolling your own, you should still pattern the loads to see how they will perform.

Jim
 
mooncoon said:
Any idea what the shot is made of? I would hate to get caught in some clever marketing scheme for a lead alloy

cheers mooncoon
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Iron, tungsten and tin.

http://www.ecotungsten.com/shots.html


It is interesting that all the patents for bismuth shot are going to expire on June 23, 2009. They may have in fact expired already if the annual maintenance fees were not paid. The only thing holding people back now is the cost of the metal itself.

The guy in the US that is making and selling bismuth shot on a small scale is selling 100lb quantities for $16 a lb, and one pound for $21/lb. Apparently he is using a modified Littleton shot maker.

Current bismuth price is around $8US/lb
 
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SandRoad said:
Iron, tungsten and tin.

http://www.ecotungsten.com/shots.html
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To expand slightly, the current version is a tungsten/iron powder suspended in a tin matrix, with a tin coating on the outside. The tin coating is why the density reported now is slightly lower than the original figure, neither of which I can recall offhand. One of my buddies got some #4s to use in his percussion fowler.

Gotta run,
Joel
 
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