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CAS TOPICS => The Powder Room - CAS reloading => Topic started by: Marshal Deadwood on December 29, 2011, 08:47:55 PM
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Can you use the Lee shotshell reloader to load black powder shotgun rounds ?
Deadwood
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No reason why not, you'd have to dump the powder some other way since none of the bushings would even be close enough.
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Thanks, Delmonico. I just wasnt sure if the Lee equipment was such as could be used with bp. Charging separately wouldn't be that big of an issue.
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Can you use the Lee shotshell reloader to load black powder shotgun rounds ?
Deadwood
If you are talking about the Lee Load All Shot Shell Loading Press the answer is Yes. I used one for 15 years before I got My MEC 600 Jr. It was great for sizing and decapping as well as repriming. I used mine to seat fiber wads, shot and then crimped my plastic hulls. Never had a problem with chambering. I used a Lee 4.0 dipper and a funnel to pour my BP charges into the primed hulls before seating wads etc.
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Same as Grapeshot, I use mine for al operations except the powder charging. Since it's not progressive, charging cases seperately is no problem. I think the instructions say not to use fiber wads in it, but I have no idea why, it words fine for me with them.
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I think the instructions say not to use fiber wads in it, but I have no idea why, it words fine for me with them.
With fiber wads and some of the older smokeless powders you had to put a very heavy wads pressure on the (up to 100 pounds) to get a clean burn. The press is not capable of that kind of pressure. Red Dot and fiber wads used to have a reputation for bloopers with worn cases or not enough pressure, Green Dot is said to have been created to over come this problem.
Herco is another one that required a heavy wad pressure and I'm sure there are others. I've got some of this information in old books I haven't unpacked yet.
No worries with black though.