Windswept Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 Does anyone know of or have examples of shooting steel shot fibre wad loads? I.e. if you loaded up your own steel shot cartridges and just used a plain fibre wad so there was nothing to protect the barrel. If shot size, pressures and speeds were kept low would their be much damage and how long would the barrel last? Just a bit of an idle thought as looking at some of the cheaper pumps a new barrel would cost £100 so wondering if a rebarrel would be cheaper than shooting something expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultrastu Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 There are a few good vids on the tube .about this and I think most modern guns and many old guns also suffer no damage at all . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave at kelton Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 16 minutes ago, Windswept said: Does anyone know of or have examples of shooting steel shot fibre wad loads? I.e. if you loaded up your own steel shot cartridges and just used a plain fibre wad so there was nothing to protect the barrel. If shot size, pressures and speeds were kept low would their be much damage and how long would the barrel last? Just a bit of an idle thought as looking at some of the cheaper pumps a new barrel would cost £100 so wondering if a rebarrel would be cheaper than shooting something expensive. Try and see Bill Harrimans experiment with a muzzle loader. No damage if I recall it correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamch Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 Jocker do one and i think Gamebore used to do trap and game loads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down South Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 Good post! This should get interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windswept Posted April 5 Author Report Share Posted April 5 10 minutes ago, Dave at kelton said: Try and see Bill Harrimans experiment with a muzzle loader. No damage if I recall it correctly. I have and I'm currently doing the same and putting copper coated steel through a cheap muzzle loader. I've not had any problems so far but speed and pressure I expect are less that a shotgun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 I don’t know what is to be gained from pursuing this, unless it’s simply to see how far loads can be pushed before damage occurs, but that damage has been well documented I believe. Hence the need for a fully encompassing steel load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 2 hours ago, Windswept said: Does anyone know of or have examples of shooting steel shot fibre wad loads? I.e. if you loaded up your own steel shot cartridges and just used a plain fibre wad so there was nothing to protect the barrel. If shot size, pressures and speeds were kept low would their be much damage and how long would the barrel last? Just a bit of an idle thought as looking at some of the cheaper pumps a new barrel would cost £100 so wondering if a rebarrel would be cheaper than shooting something expensive. Holts have Spanish sxs for a few pounds ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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