I think virtually all experienced reloaders agree on this. You can always use Top Gun hulls with Gold Medal load data-this will always be safe, and the pressure will always be slightly lower with the fiber basewad Top Guns the TG hulls have a bit less room than the GMs, but the difference is minimal. Maybe I need to get a bigger variety of wads and powders.Hi Mojo, I have looked in my Lyman 5th Edition Shotshell Reloading Handbook, and on the Alliant and Hodgdon sites. The official Lyman slug loads call for 12S4 wads, which will often have just enough room under them for a thin card, but I'm comfortable subbing the 12S3 where the stack height works out (and it's hard to blow up that Benelli barrel, since it's rated for 14,000 psi.)įulltang, I do have a few dozen Top Gun hulls, but have not found much heavy slug load published data on them (most slug loads I find are for the Gun Club hulls, or Federal Gold Medal of which I have none). The genuine Federal 12S3 is a good match for the Lyman slug, and fits the Benelli barrel, but try to pick up some Top Gun or Fiocchi hulls on the range (there should be lots of them all over the place) and you'll see plenty of heavy loads listed for them. Plus, the crush section on these wads is rather flimsy. This combo give OK accuracy, but it's a loose fit in the Benelli barrel (I have a Benelli Nova Tactical) and there's a big jump across that 3.5" chamber, so this will never be a long-range slugger. The Lyman manual lists a sabot slug load with 25 gn of Herco, and win 209. About the only wad I've found useful here is the genuine WT12 (orange) wad, or the equivalent WAA12. No problem using them with lighter slugs, but the wad combo is the issue here. I have hundreds of once-fired Gun Clubs, too-but I don't use them for heavy slug loads. I want to try a gas seal and some combo of felt filler wads and nitro cards to build a shot column that won't crush unevenly, but cannot find such a recipe with my hulls and slugs. I imagine the unevenly compacted crush part is largely to blame for my poor accuracy. The DRA12 wads that start with all petals intact have the petals ripped off (usually leaving 1 or 2 intact) and the "crush" area is always unevenly compacted. I have tried trimming or completely cutting off the petals with no appreciable difference. My inconsistent accuracy at 50 yards ranges from 3 groups within 4" to only 1 out of 3 shots on the paper (and the paper is 11x17"!!). I have tried the Lyman shotshell recipe (Gun Club hulls, ~40-43 grains Blue Dot, Downrange DRA12 yellow wad, W209 primer) with and without nitro cards.
I have maybe hundreds of once-fired Remington Gun Club Hulls, a smooth-bore Benelli Supernova Tactical pump shotgun, Blue Dot, Longshot, and Herco powders, DRA12, Remington 12S3 and DR 1 1/8 Blue wads, W209 primers, and Lyman 525 grain slugs I cast.
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