CZ93X62
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What Lamar said--in bold print and italicized.
Rifle--handgun--and shotgun reloading have different rules and the wide variety of venues that all three get used in can call for varying load development and production regimens.
IME shotshell reloading is the least flexible of the three sub-groups. You gotta stick to the hull--powder--wad column--shot weight recipe quite closely or performance suffers (certainly) and safety can be compromised--as Lamar points out. CREATIVITY is NOT a good thing in that discipline.
I haven't done much low-node loading. I can't write intelligently about whether primer swaps make a huge difference. I know that even in non-shortage times my area of the country has mostly CCI and Winchester primers. This has been true since I made my first shotshell along about 19-ought-70. If I want Rem #6-1/2s, that has meant a 470 miles drive to the Big Reno Gun Show and a stop at Miwall's booth. The only readily available Federals are SP (#100) and LRM (#215)--and those are iffy. With the serial droughts.......I am very glad that I am well-stocked primer-wise. Availability looms large, IOW.
If low-node = 'Sub-sonic', then I have done a bit of that in 30-06 and 9.3 x 62. WLR were used in the loads because it's what I have most of.
Rifle--handgun--and shotgun reloading have different rules and the wide variety of venues that all three get used in can call for varying load development and production regimens.
IME shotshell reloading is the least flexible of the three sub-groups. You gotta stick to the hull--powder--wad column--shot weight recipe quite closely or performance suffers (certainly) and safety can be compromised--as Lamar points out. CREATIVITY is NOT a good thing in that discipline.
I haven't done much low-node loading. I can't write intelligently about whether primer swaps make a huge difference. I know that even in non-shortage times my area of the country has mostly CCI and Winchester primers. This has been true since I made my first shotshell along about 19-ought-70. If I want Rem #6-1/2s, that has meant a 470 miles drive to the Big Reno Gun Show and a stop at Miwall's booth. The only readily available Federals are SP (#100) and LRM (#215)--and those are iffy. With the serial droughts.......I am very glad that I am well-stocked primer-wise. Availability looms large, IOW.
If low-node = 'Sub-sonic', then I have done a bit of that in 30-06 and 9.3 x 62. WLR were used in the loads because it's what I have most of.
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