Chamber to .357 Maximum. I did mine and it makes something useful into something truly interesting. I get 1650 fps from a 200 gr. in less than 9”. Even the .357 Max. case has small capacity for shot. Maybe 40-50 pellets of 7-1/2 shot. Smaller shot is better. I did a little work with the CCI blue capsules filling the max case and then the open bottom capsule. Gained maybe 20 more pellets.
The TC hot shots had a true 1/2 oz. of shot (both .357 and .44) but were near 2” long with the capsule sliding past the thrust into the rifling. That worked! True .410 shotgun patterns and velocity to exactly 30 yds. The .45/.410 works too and is great with #9 skeet loads.
The shot really needs some plastic buffer. It gets damaged compacted into a column and spun down the rifling. Released some fly wild. Anything works though, paper tube, plastic granules, etc. The easiest to toy with is a cardboard over powder wad, shot with plastic buffering, another card over shot wad it inverted gas check crimped in place. Full of #9’s it is a fair close snake gun.
I’ll shoot you a PM too.
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357 shotshell loading
- Ray Shepard, 2022-09-05, 12:05
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- Yeah Ray, I have one too. You really should open up the - WB, 2022-09-06, 06:41
- Try a 357 max case for more volume - Bob Denning, 2022-09-05, 18:54
- shotshell - carl hackney, 2022-09-05, 12:52
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357 shotshell
- stonecold, 2022-09-05, 12:35
- Thanks all for the feedback. - Ray Shepard, 2022-09-06, 17:58