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First victim of the 9mm gelatin load just now. 3ft flying and weaving point and shoot. Knocked his guts out.

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I turned around and there was a flying stinging deer fly looking thing...

Rock on with it. Interested in your results

One thing about it--we are getting better at it.

Ha,ha! Steal away. I feel like the capsules are the ultimate way to cram more rice into these things. The powder charge on the .38 is 2.0gr vs .5gr for the 9mm.

One thing you will find out is...

Whoa, the .38spl load is devastating.
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Ok heres the .38spl. 1 run thru the crimper to swage it down at the neck, 2gr powder, cardboard wad, 11gr of rice on the wad topped with a filled gelatin gapsule for a payload of 26.7gr of rice.
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So I made a procedural error and corrected it to make using the gelatin capsules easier. I was first swaging the cases down in the .380 crimp then resizing in the 9mm die then flaring. In doing that...

After the .22LR fiasco I shot 2 with my .22mag. One from the back with Maxi Mag HPs. The bullet shattered on the haunch and I had to put it down with another bullet.

I bought Maxi Mag solids and...

I have killed a few that hung over my 11" wide shovel 11" on each side not counting the tail and as big as a basketball in diameter. Estimated 30lbs. I carried one that big ~75 yds to my holler after...

Acted like a fool is what. I thought I was running a 9mm case in a .380 die to swage the end down for my shot capsule loads.

The case went in the die then got stuck and the shell holder popped...

I sent you a PM on how to get rid of the iron stains as well as the iron and possibly sulfur in the well.

That was my thought as well. Luckily this was the only one of 25 or more I've killed that has done this. Makes me wonder if it was one I had shot at and hit poorly that got away.

They definitely are. I have seen one develop a heightened sense of awareness. It could tell I was coming from 50yds away and would take off running at dog speed. First time I saw it happen I walked...

They are getting huge in NW Arkansas and I have seen them foraging in sub-freezing weather here over the last few years. I think they are packing on body fat to combat the cold. This is a relatively...

Have you pulled a crimped bullet and measured it? Check to see if your crimp is swaging it down in size.

I'm too cheap to buy brass for this but .454 would be nice if it uses small primers.

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I perfected my shot loads today using gelatin capsules. Detailed info in my wasp rice loads thread.
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Blowing up a can with 9mm #7.5 shot...

OK, I got it figured out and am happy with the results. No extra glue, tape, nothing needed to secure the capsules. Brass just needs a modification and then can stay for use with shot loads. I was...

The above is regarding skinks on the porch. I was admiring a really big one on my porch today amazed at his size when all of a sudden...WHAM!! An American Kestrel blazes across my porch and snatches...

Looking forward to your results. One thing I like about the capsules I'm using is that they are gelatin. Dissolve in water/biodegradable/digestable

Yep. You don't load a ton of these. I initially shot ~25 wasps but that culled the ones I had hanging around the house. It's been slim pickings since my initial foray into it.

Once I get this...

Still playing around with the capsules. I kinda fell into something with them. I took the piece of brass that I overcrimped. It had a waist in it 3/16" down. I flared it and then put the capsule in...

I think I have some in my reloading stuff. I'll check it out. I did do some capsules with wax but the ones with tape are stuck better abeit a bit tedious to do.

Thanks for the tape idea. The x-cut in the tip did it. I'm gonna beef up that lead shot load with more powder and see what it will do. This is fun stuff.

Forgot to add. The last x-cut rice capsule I shot was still inside the 9mm case after firing. It blew thru the capsule.

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Alright, played around with the capsules some more. Capsules hold 16.5gr of rice.
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I loaded them directly over powder with no wad. They did not open up at 2ft so I X-cut the tips and...