adding nitro card & pressure?

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11 March 2007, 11:13

MThuntr

adding nitro card & pressure?

Okay I started putting a load together from Hodgdon website and it doesn't fill the shell.

The load is 12ga Federal 3-1/2" with 209A primer, 34.8gr of Longshot and WAA12SL wad. Velocity is 1200fps and pressure says 13,300PSI. It looks like if I add one 20ga nitro card to the wad it will match up right.

Will adding a nitro card to fill the shell affect the pressure of the load enough to be concerned?

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13 March 2007, 06:00

MThuntr

The answer is it affects pressure very minimally.

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13 March 2007, 18:24

Dutch

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15 March 2007, 09:47

Customstox

MThunter,
Are you talking to yourself again?

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16 March 2007, 04:43

MThuntr

You better believe it! lol

I generally search for info on multiple sites and since nobody replied, I figured I should pass on what I found out elsewhere.

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16 March 2007, 07:42

els

actually thanks a lot. I just added a nitro over powder card to a load and was wondering the same thing.

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