B525 LIGHT Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Hi, Considering trying some ITX 10 shot. Does anyone know the pellet counts for number 2’s and BB’s please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Sure there is a list online i have seen for all non toxic shot, have google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Continental Shooter Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 I think c&g have one. ballistic products show 106.7 pellet/ounce on their web site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B525 LIGHT Posted June 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Cheers, found it. 106 for the #2 and 59 for the #BB. Anyone tried it in a 10? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 not tried in the 10, but in the 12 its pretty cool in the pressure barrel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 its expensive with anything over 32g ! so it really expensive in the 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B525 LIGHT Posted June 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 Cheaper than bismuth though.... Just an idea at the moment, probably stick with steel BBB in the 10 and B in the 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK fowler Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 On 06/06/2018 at 12:27, B525 LIGHT said: Cheers, found it. 106 for the #2 and 59 for the #BB. Anyone tried it in a 10? yes works ok but BB were to big ie low in pellet count 4mm or us#1 would be the best shot size for a 10g but they never wanted to make any when they were emailed on the subject this was a typical pattern 40yds 705 terror its ok but just went back to steel, still got some itx loaded up from four years ago prob never use it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 10 hours ago, B525 LIGHT said: Cheaper than bismuth though.... Just an idea at the moment, probably stick with steel BBB in the 10 and B in the 12 Just how much is it? A friend is getting me some bismuth that should be decent value. I will post the exact price when i get it. I must admit, steel is probably the best all round choice. I do like my hw13 etc, but I shot a lot of high geese with good old steel last season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 i did a nontoxic pressure test to basically buy one powder and wad-hull and swap the shot out. overall the test gave up some useful information. one being the powder. i suppose its not too silly to chat about powder or the overall package of a shell. i reloaded lead, steel, bismuth,niceshot,copper**** hw13 / powershot and itx10. the individual shells say very little and compressing the dataset in statistics really do it justice. i would whole heartedly replace any lead shell with the same volume of bismuth. thats calculated using 0.888 as a difference. take a 42g lead load, take out the lead and add about 37g of bismuth. when i did this in my test that was 36 lead load and 32g bismuth. the actual pressure dropped. hardly groundbreaking but its what i did. infact as the wad i used had to be steel rated when replacing the same volume ie 36g lead vs 25g steel, 28g coppershot, 32g bismuth,32g niceshot, all the pressures were lower than the aforementioned 36g lead. now i did load 42g powershot aswell but it failed on statistics. that was hard luck. now i suppose you guys are wondering what am i on about? well i can shoot nearly all nontoxics with one reloading dataset. except for the aforementioned 42g powershot load that failed. there is nothing stopping me now loading up 36g of powershot with a bit of packing lifting the shot. ie 20gauge hard card at the bottom of the wad. i can even load up a total amount of 36g of powershot / steel shot (in a special ratio, maybe steel 7s to act as a retrospective filler / buffer). this was the most interesting concept of using steel shot as a buffer to fill the volume so the load would be something like 30g powershot with steel shot on top. i`d have to do the calculation though.... am i off my rocker for thinking like this? i did all this with a mediocre powder ie vectan A1, because we are always told to use 381, alliant steel, sp2 bm50 powder or c4. 1300fps powershot is a viable goose shell. the rest were designed for ducking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 My bismuth shot has arrived. It is £150 for 10lbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 thats 4.54kg or about 126x 36g loads or 141x classic 32g loads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 Still a saving of around 50 or 60p per cart on buying ready made ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 At the shotsiizee retrofitted too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 Only loaded ITX in 3 inch 410s and it does the job on ducks no problem. All down to how many shells you are going to use I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B525 LIGHT Posted June 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 Thanks chaps? Is that the 6% tin stuff from the states Wayne? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted June 11, 2018 Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 Don't know about that. Purchased mine from Clay & Game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted June 11, 2018 Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 3 hours ago, B525 LIGHT said: Thanks chaps? Is that the 6% tin stuff from the states Wayne? I shall find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted June 11, 2018 Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 6 hours ago, B525 LIGHT said: Thanks chaps? Is that the 6% tin stuff from the states Wayne? Yep, 6% tin from Rotometals. I have got the 4.25mm, which should be an ideal size for geese. It will mostly be used in the 10 o/u. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 motty, thats the way to do it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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