Reeder Custom Guns - Mainly the ball load is used as within the range

Bob W
Mainly the ball load is used as within the range
Thursday, May 27, 2021, 15:27

I can actually point the thing, I can hit with a plain ball about as well as I can center a pattern, and using a patched ball keeps the loading easy and fun.

If it were a longer shoulder stocked gun I would spend more time playing with wads and shot loads and powder charges for best patterning, but for a fun gun, simply dumping in powder followed by a patched ball is about as simple as it gets.

I always followed the old V.M. Starr advice and kept shotloads simple, power, couple of pasteboard wads, shot, same pasteboard over shot, and have been quite happy with patterns, but the patched ball is even simpler.

What's your most fearsome/intimidating handgun? - Bob W, 2021-05-27, 14:01
- my 8" bbl british sterling smg w/ the stock underfolded and - Woody, 2021-05-29, 18:30
- A scandium smith 357 - Bob Denning, 2021-05-27, 16:50
  - Those are a life changing experience - WB, 2021-05-28, 10:49
  - Watch out for low flying handguns. I gave up - Bob W, 2021-05-27, 17:11
    - Scandium .357 S&W - Jim Taylor, 2021-05-27, 17:19
      - S&W 360 - AlanT, 2021-05-28, 13:01
      - Whoa! 357 flamethrower! (nm) - Derek, 2021-05-28, 06:32
      - Gives new meaning to "shoot them til they catch on fire". (nm) - Bob W, 2021-05-27, 17:29
- I have never seen a "fearsome or intimidating" - Gary Reeder, 2021-05-27, 14:43
  - AMEN TO THAT GARY. THE MOST SERIOUS LOOKING - JT, 2021-05-27, 15:52
    - is that 2 or 3 different sets of grips? (nm) - gary reeder, 2021-05-27, 21:42
      - TWO (nm) - JT, 2021-05-29, 07:11
    - Short N-frames have always been among the top - Bob W, 2021-05-27, 17:08
      - BOTH--BOTTOM IS BLUMAGNUM (nm) - JT, 2021-05-27, 20:57
        3 1/2" M-27 - james, 2021-05-28, 11:00
        Beautiful. (nm) - Bob W, 2021-05-28, 12:03
        I should have looked harder. Mainly looked - Bob W, 2021-05-28, 08:11
- It will be whatever is in my hands when needed. (nm) - IC, 2021-05-27, 14:37
- I had one of those, it was fun. - WB, 2021-05-27, 14:17
  - No target or bench gun for sure. - Bob W, 2021-05-27, 14:34
    - Mainly the ball load is used as within the range - Bob W, 2021-05-27, 15:27
- It probably ain't always but the last weeks it was ... - Jim Taylor, 2021-05-27, 14:15
  - A raccoon worst nightmare. That counts. (nm) - Bob W, 2021-05-27, 14:28