Let’s talk Shotgun Powders

[Music] [Music] [Music] all right we're gonna look at some shotgun powders one thing about shotgun powders is that there's a ton of them out there you're gonna happen look at load data you can look at several manuals such as the Lyman book you punk it all that stuff and you can decide for yourself what what man you want to use and then you can look at powders and I probably try to narrow it down to something that's locally available you know I like constant powders Hobson's or Winchester or IMR they don't make this particular powder anymore it's going to the powder graveyard there's just a little bit left it used to be a real favorite of mine but anyways that's enough little chitchat talk about powders as they're separated in by burn rate and what I mean by burn rate back to the Lyman book you can see this chart right here and this chart has a list of burn rates it's only got 134 powders listed but if you look you go online some of the powders that are in this book are obsolete if you go online and print out this little chart this little handy chart off of Hodgkins website and there's over 150 powders listed on it so that's a handy thing to have what is burn rate mean well burn rate is how fast the powder burns and house versus how slow the powder burns there's single base powders and double base powders and that has to do with fast and slow I've mentioned that hot weather and cold weather messes with them so let's look at some of those cents some of those things a faster burn rate powder if you look at the chart a faster burn rated powder is going to be listed obviously number one slower they're listed from the fastest to the slowest but this is only an approximate burn rate it's not permanent so with this book being having a hundred and thirty-four in it in that shark having a hundred and fifty on it like I said this powder is discontinued so something had to take its place in this book it's listed as number 37 but on that chart it's not listed as number 37 because it's not in production anymore so they're gonna change relatively in small increments so if you're wondering what I'm looking at whenever I look to the right I've got a monitor up there so I can see my face I've try to keep this thing in focus trying a new camera out today so hopefully this is going to be a whole lot clearer and we want to fade in and out or what kind of stuff depending on what you're wanting to load it's gonna be know what your what kind of powder you're going for target loads seven eighths ounce 1 ounce target loads I'm talking about clays you know whether shooting sporting clays whether you're shooting skeet whether you're shooting trap you're gonna want like a fast burn rate powder that is working fairly good for you faster burn rate powders are gonna be cleaner slower burn rate powders are going to leave a little bit of debris a little bit more debris in the barrel it just matters about whether for some of that but one other book that I use is for some of the information in it is this advantages manual from ballistic products they're pretty good I pick one up while I'm on that I mentioned the REO holes in my whole video and got a copy of the REO manual I'm sure what I found this was kind of a was a fun thing for me I sent this picture to ballistic products a while back and there you are a picture that I sent to them probably five years ago made the manual and I still stand beside my behind my statement I do like the Remington holes that I can get from various places but as far as being able to diversify and color-code and stuff like that I do like the real hulls so you're you're faster barnwright powders super handicap is a let's see what number is it on this list according to Lyman let's look here not seeing it on here maybe it's in this book hang on guys kind of going off the fly here super handicaps list is number 22 in this list off of the Hajin website that's a pretty fast burn rate powder it has the you can reproduce a factory load with this is what it says and that is ounce 1/8 of shot at twelve hundred and fifty feet per second international that's another fast burn rate powder and it is listed at number 23 so they're pretty close to each other unique from a lot that's a fast burn rate powder it's listed at number 27 so those are my fast ones my slower burn rate powders for cents are 47:56 sorts they don't make anymore was a slower burn rated powder and it's list is number 37 but for slower burn rate powders what I mean by slower burn rate they're gonna burn longer sometimes the other ones that gives you the flash out the barrel you know whenever you're whenever you're shooting and for heavy hunting loads not target loads these other powders you know they slip faster burner powders I'm good for target loads for heavy hunting loads you're gonna want a slower burn right powder depending on the conditions and we'll get into that but Mr blue was was brought out and they ayam are brought these out in competition with like I'm our blues and competition with blue dot there's I'm our red I'm our green they're used I'm are unequal and I'm our target they kind of compete in that market range with them it's a slow burn rated powder a long shot from Hostin is a staple for slow burn rate powders you can get they have 1500 and 30 feet per second onsen I ate two loads of lead with this which if you can keep lad patterning at that speed then you're doing something right but and then you have steel let me take talk to you about steel steel is a very bulky elastic powder it has very big flakes I'm not going to dump them out and show you the flakes but the flakes are big it doesn't meet her well through the reloader machines so you need to weigh it I would have a reloading scale if I was you and I do here have a scale mine's from Frankfurt Arsenal I can't remember where I got it but this is my scale I weigh my shot way my powder to make sure my bushings and charge bars are dropping what they're supposed to and they are this is a great great powder tray loading steel you better have this on your workbench because the velocity is you're gonna get at low pressures are phenomenal you can get 16 1700 feet per second steel loads out of this out of a 12-gauge and let me tell you that is smoking fast now the velocity that you're gonna get at that velocity gonna be some setback on shoulder whichever want to use but so there's fast burn rate powders and slow burn rate powders what about the weather well the weather is something that once you get below 40 degrees these have powders have what do they call that nitrocellulose for a single base propellant or powder and your double base powder has nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin well at a certain temperature that is not our freezing level in America's you know 32 degrees Fahrenheit but it like 40 degrees and below you can start seeing some debris buildup in your shotgun barrel and you may say to yourself well I thought this was a clean burning powder well it is but some of your double base powders are gonna leave debris in colder weather so when it gets really cold you might find you a hunting load that uses a single base of faster burning powder and that will clean up the debris that's in your shotgun barrel if you're hunting there are really really frigid temperatures so that kind of covers hot weather and cold weather one thing I want to kind of give you an a rundown on I don't know I think I've got it here's a box of shells right here these are some old federal gold metal solid plastic shell I didn't cover Federals in my whole video but feel free to do that yourself it's not a big deal but there's something on this box called drams equivalent sleep my camera will focus on it here equivalent what does drams or drums however you want to say it equivalent mean well back in the black-powder days they measured black powder by drams and they could use that to let you that was kind of a the same as that we measure velocity back in you know turn nineteen hundred's you know back before smokeless powder was introduced so that is something almost back to the older days nobody hardly uses those anymore you'll find some people that really use them as far as trying to tell if it's a high powered or low powered load based on velocity you know my dad still uses he don't measure things by drams but what he does is you'll say well what's the what's the drams on it and I can that'll tell him if it's a high powered load so kind of get yourself familiar with what some of that and it'll help you out in the long run and once again if you don't take anything else away from this video never substitute powders in a load it is a no-go you are mm-hmm you don't want to do it you use the powder that it calls for and and that's the safest thing that you can do this has not been a real informative video maybe as far as detailed but this is this is about as detailed as I'm going to get with it here if you like the videos you know please like and subscribe to the channel and we'll keep something coming to you we are gonna get to patterning we are gonna get to you know shooting skeet and things like that later on I just wanted to get done with this series here and that way we can move on to other things so anyhow like subscribe comment let me know what you think and if you have any questions shoot me an email at reloader ad at yahoo.com and I'll do the very best I can and tell him take care

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Keywords: Reloading, Shot shell Powder, 12 Gauge, 16 gauge, 20 gauge, Hunting, Shotgun, Shotgun Powder

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Length: 15min 3sec (903 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 10 2020