.410 is a treat to load. Are you loading 2 1/2” or 3”? I have found it necessary to really make sure the wad is fully seated before dropping the shot. If not, you can over-compress the shot column into the wad and cause what you are seeing here.
NormalJust started loading shotshell, been reading up on it for a while.
Started with .410 & trying to get everything dialed in. Recovered a few wads & noticed some of the #9 shot embedded in the shot cup.
Is this normal or caused by something wrong?
Thanks in advance.
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I scoop them up by the bucket load from my own yard every year. Not counting all the ones that go straight in to the fire pit with the mowed and collected grass.True measured choke dimensions mite help. And wads aren’t what they were in 1970. JMO Other than that I’m thinking @JTKelly got it rite.
Mine end up in the corn field, plow‘em in, wife goes through about 5-6 hundred a year. Same with clay birds. It hasn’t hurt the yield.I scoop them up by the bucket load from my own yard every year. Not counting all the ones that go straight in to the fire pit with the mowed and collected grass.
If plastic and brass helps your yield I’d be willing to fertilize your field.Mine end up in the corn field, plow‘em in, wife goes through about 5-6 hundred a year. Same with clay birds. It hasn’t hurt the yield.