Shot loads and or stacked ball loads

[JSH]

Am I the only one bored enough to have toyed with these?
I have some 38's with two .360 round balls and 357 with three. They all grouped surprisingly well at 15-50 feet.
Also got bored and made up some 45 colt shot shells from 410 shells.
Then a light came on and I am tinkering with full cylinder length brass shot shells for the 480 Ruger, from turned down 45-70 Hornady brass.
My one test round of 45-70 brass tied up the cylinder, primer set back. Group was really good, but then again it was close to a half ounce of shot too.
Jeff

 

[Pistolero]

When I was a teen, I was blessed to have an older friend who was studying engineering at
the nearby university, had a lathe, an amazing gun collection and did some reloading, although
pretty basic. He had his "Hock Shop Load" - which was three .360 balls in a .38 Spl case. It
worked pretty well. Three balls.....Hock Shop......I didn't get it the first time either.

Love to see that inventiveness is still active!

Bill

 

[Brad]

A 45-70 with 3 .457 round ball can be interesting too.

 

[creosote]

I had to look up the three ball/pawn shop thing. Never even noticed it. Learn something here every day.
I've dabbled with shot, ( got one rattle snake) and one round ball, but multiple full-size round balls sounds much funner.

 

[Brad]

I know a guy who was challenged by an old guy to a single shot with a muzzleloader at 50 yards, winner take all. No money, just pride on the line.
Old guy fired his shot, had an 8. Young kid fired his shot and what the hell? There were 2 new holes in the target. Holy crap, he loaded two balls on top of the powder.
2 8's beat 1 every time. Ask Khornet, bet he remembers it well. I know I do.

 

[Pistolero]

Brad, IIRC, there was a "guardhouse" load like that issued for the guys guarding prisoners in
the days when the Trapdoor Springfields were issue rifles.

Bill

 

[358156 hp]

I used to load two .32 cal Hornady JHPs in a 38 cal. Speer shot capsule nose first, without the base wad. I'd load them in 357 cases using 180 gr loading data. I never chrono'd them, but those little fellas were smokin' hot, and would pretty much explode on contact. At about thirty yards they you impact a couple of inches apart. Accurate has a number of 357 moulds that drop full wadcutters under 70 or so grains. NOE also has at least one flyweight design too. Talk about a three round burst from a revolver...

 

[Todd M]

I've done 2 ball loads in 44 mag brass. Never had anything but plywood to shoot them at, but I was impressed with the grouping also! Might make a fun bunny load.

 

[Eutectic]

A 'double tap' with only one round!.....

Pete

 

[RBHarter]

Several years ago I swaged 000B out to ,454 and stacked 4 in a Colts case . Fun for like a post shoot or something like that . Did the same with 00B for 38/357 . Loaded with WC data . Kind of fun to shoot when first shot makes 3-4 holes in a clean sheet .

 

[KeithB]

Won a bet from an ISPC wanna be with double ball loads in my Bulldog .44 Spcl. Told him I could put 10 hits on a target faster than he could with his .45 auto. We fired, he reloaded, I didn't. Both targets had 10 holes. I won, end of story.

I put a thin card wad between the two balls, out to 10 yds or so they would strike within a couple inches of each other. Figured they would make good stopping loads with a double impact but limited penetration.

 

[Pistolero]

That's pretty good, Keith. I'd trust .44 cal balls a lot more than .36 cal for stopping power.
The .44 cal balls are about 125 gr and the .36 cal a bit under 80 grains, so .44 cal is more
than 50% heavier, plus a lot more area.

Bill