12ga SHOTBANDS

[sportingman]

just wondering if anyone has or knows how to properly use these? Instructions on the box, but how safe are they to load in a modern load?
Anyone.....
Anyone?

 

[scairns]

looks like something you might use between the shot and hull to cushion it down the barrel, when we were still using fibre base wads, and not modern wads?

 

[sportingman]

Should have been a little more specific. They say to place in shotcup of wad, then drop in your shot. Supposed to help concentrate the shot for a bit longer distance. Just wondering if anyone has recently used this..........but I doubt it. Thanks

 

[rembolt]

Looks as though they would reduce diameter of the wad making a longer narrower shot collum .how much that would affect the pattern I am not sure.

 

[kurzhaar1]

You asked how safe are they????? Here's another question you might ask yourself are they mentioned in any reliable shotgun reloading manual ( like Lyman )? Or Hodgdon's website ? Alliant's? ------ NO!!!!!!

Now it's up to you.

Kurzhaar1

 

[Aniest]

Shot bands still used... limited though

I recently bought a steel-substitute for my dad's older non-steel rated semi: it specified shot bands or unslit wads only. It is through wondering why that I came by this reasoning:

To my limited knowledge shot bands are only used now with shot that may scratch or damage a barrel. There are certain brands of steel, steel-substitute and steel-mix shot that can still damage an older barrel marked for steel (or subsitutes that can scratch old, Damscus and other barrels). The most modern barrels have accounted for this I believe, but only in the last few years. As most shot cups are slit and would allow the shot to scratch the barrel as it is forced to contact the barrel only in the slits (in other words, the slits force a nice long scratch in the barrel), this allows you to insert the shot band into the cup, or use a fibre base wad/no cup wad, and not receive scratches.

Not perfect... but better than slit wads in this case.

 

[3macs1]

The only time I can recall see them being used was for reloading slugs probally 30 years ago. You have some real old stuff there.
I cannot think of an application for them with todays components