cardboard shotcup?

[multibeard]

I bought solid plastic shot cups, over powder wads (.125"), and over shot wads .040") in a kit from Cabelas a few years back. The kit actually came from ballistic products.com. I have never seen the shot cups in there catalog

I wanted to use my Navy Arms percussion 12 ga double to kill a turkey but couldn't get a pattern out of the open bored barrel that was acceptable to me to try.

I cut the cushion off some regular 12 GA reloading wads but that still wasn't good enough. I tried to using scotch tape on the cups to keep the slits closed and ended up with an oblong pattern Tight enough but the pattern would be one way one time and 90* the other the next.

The shot cups in the kit came solid but were supposed to be split before use but I shot them without slitting and got a pretty good pattern out to 25 yards shooting #6 lead shot. I did kill a nice tom that spring with the gun.

I noticed on the paperwork with the kit that the shot cups are BP12-Tuff shot cups. 7/8 steel or 1 1/4 oz lead. I just loaded an equal measure of powder and shot using the cup as a measure. Here are the numbers from the scanniing sque off the sheel that came with the kit form cabelas---8 09579 65381 4 ----

I do not know if the numbers are still good as it has been a few years since I bought the kit. I do now that the customer service guy that found the kit for me went over and above the call of duty to find them for me. It took him 15/20 minutes of looking to come up with them.