Buck and ball 12 ga.

[Iroquois]

I cast some.690 caliber balls yesterday... Looking for some published data on buck and ball for 12 ga...

 

[smokingman]

I cast some.690 caliber balls yesterday... Looking for some published data on buck and ball for 12 ga...

Not exclusively for 12 ga. But likely helpful.

.69 ball, buck and ball and buckshot cartridges of the U.S. Army - capandball.eu

The construction of cartridges was standardized in the U.S. Army in the year of 1835. Since that time the ball cartridge construction followed the same pattern until they disappeared from the Ordnance manuals in 1861. Let’s follow the words of the 1841 U.S. Ordnance manual to get closer to the...

capandball.com

This one is though.

VdoMemories Blazing Buck & Ball or Buck & Slugs

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee75/Dantebeowulf/BlazingBuckBallcopy.jpg http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee75/Dantebeowulf/BlazingBuckSlugLyman525copy.jpg http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee75/Dantebeowulf/NewerBuckSlugload.jpg...

castboolits.gunloads.com

 

[BigMoose]

I cast some.690 caliber balls yesterday... Looking for some published data on buck and ball for 12 ga...

I have some factory loads. Though mine are a .65 round ball and six #1 bucks. At 1300FPS, these things KICK worse then any buckshot load I have ever fired.
I think 65 might be more full choke friendly then 69

 

[Iroquois]

Not exclusively for 12 ga. But likely helpful.

.69 ball, buck and ball and buckshot cartridges of the U.S. Army - capandball.eu

The construction of cartridges was standardized in the U.S. Army in the year of 1835. Since that time the ball cartridge construction followed the same pattern until they disappeared from the Ordnance manuals in 1861. Let’s follow the words of the 1841 U.S. Ordnance manual to get closer to the...

capandball.com

This one is though.

VdoMemories Blazing Buck & Ball or Buck & Slugs

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee75/Dantebeowulf/BlazingBuckBallcopy.jpg http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee75/Dantebeowulf/BlazingBuckSlugLyman525copy.jpg http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee75/Dantebeowulf/NewerBuckSlugload.jpg...

castboolits.gunloads.com

Thank you, it's a starting point. I'd love to build some of these but don't want to blow myself up...

 

[Magyars]

I've always been fascinated with B&B.it was used by the Irish brigade (IIRC) TO good effect during CW1