CURMUDGEON POKES WITH THE X-STREAM SPREADER                       

Yes, boys and girls the tiny plastic X-STREAM device will flog your shot into a quick-opening & larger patterns.  When targets are CLOSE the X-STREAM device becomes a golden moment for your shooting.   Why, only the other day CURMUDGEON was faced with a silly Sporting Clays target that damn near ran him over.   Why the little pest crossed quickly - right to left and vanished like a wisp of smoke.  CURMUDGEON reached into his gross bag of tricks.  He found a handful of 20-gauge #9 lead shot X-STREAM loads.  Tipping the Beretta 20-gauge O/U CURMUDGEON dropped the ¾ ounce loads into the chambers.  The next crosser and the next were pounded into dust.   Yes, my friend – unique targets call for special loads.  Most satisfactory, I tell you.

The tiny X-STREAM device will fit into 16-gauge and 12-gauge plastic shotcups.  Also the X-STREAM device drops into cardboard loads of 12, 16 and 20 gauge.  With 20-gauge and 28-gauge plastic shotcups the reloader may take the RELOADER’S SNIPS (#SNIPS) and nip away the exterior lobes thus providing a snug fit.  (The 28-gauge requires the lobes be snipped away plastic shotcup or no shotcup).  So, 12-gauge thru 28-gauge!

The tiny X-STREAM device weighs almost nothing (6 grains, about the same as two tiny pellets) and thus not raise the PSI of a load. However, the physical volume of the X-STREAM spreader occupies the same space as 1/8 ounce of fine lead shot.  So once in awhile a minor “fit” accommodation may needed.  (Any clever reloader resolves this one in seconds.)  With gas seals, cork, fiber, & cardboard combinations – only a minor change – say the ¼” cork becomes a 1/8” cork.  Most plastic wads will squeeze down allowing the load to be crimped without other accommodation.

Don’t get caught without it.

X-STREAM Cat#3220001

CURMUDGEON