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Old 08-20-2010, 04:12 AM
NE450No2 NE450No2 is offline
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I have loaded my own, back in the day, using the yellow Speer plastic capsules.

However since CCI/Speer had been offering them as a factory item I have been just using them.

I have used them in 9mm, 38 Special, 44 Mag and 45 ACP.

And I have used a few hundred of them.

The 45ACP and 44 Mag are the most effective, the wife and I have killed dozens of snakes, rabbits, squirrels, quail doves, grouse,[I like to eat small game] and I have even killed a porcipine [sp] with a 9mm. With the 44 I have killed ptarmargin in Alaska, and a few snakes in Africa.

Just in the last 2 weeks, here on our place the wife has killed 2 snakes with her 38 S&W Centennial, and I killed 2 with my 1911. All were Diamondback watersnakes over 40" long.

I find the CCI/Speer factory shotshells very effective. I never go into the field without a bunch of them.

With the 44 or 45 I have never had to shoot a snake more than twice, and I have killed some pretty BIG rattlers, as well as Cotton Mouth, and Copperheads.
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