Ballistic Products
X-Stream Spreader Insert
The X-stream™ is placed into the load just prior to dropping your shot charge. Then, once the shot is dropped, the pellets fall into one of the four sectioned chambers with a few layers covering the top. The layer on top will fill the center-section of your pattern, while the pellets below, in the chambers, will be evenly dispersed toward the outside pattern. The results are more consistent patterns, wider patterns (by about one choke spec.) and fewer deformed, fly-away pellets.

Upland:
Combined with plated shot, X-Streams have become customer favorites for heavy-cover grouse and tight-holding early-season/heavy cover pheasants. In upland conditions where the birds have to be forced from cover, any load with a shotcup will produce a pattern that's too tight. You need a spreader wad in these cases, if you want to hit consistently.

Steel Shot and other Non-toxic Pellet Loads:
Sometimes the thick shotcups used with steel loads contribute to an overly-tight pattern for wingshooting over decoys. You can spread the pattern without changing guns or chokes. X-stream will spread the steel shot pattern about one constriction (full becomes modified).

Used with magnum payloads of Bismuth No-Tox and HeviShot, the X-Stream offers the same benefits; diffusing pellet energy, ultimately improving and controlling pattern consistency and organizing the patterns edges.

Clays:
Placed on top of a 12-gauge Brush Wad, the X-Stream is used in a load described as "perfect" for really difficult close-range clays targets - even ground presentation targets such as "running rabbit." The heavy, thick ground targets require slightly larger pellets for more energy to break spectacularly.

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New Tricks for the BP12:
X-Stream Spreader^tm  Wad from BPI
The BP12 / BPGS combination has an established reputation as "the" wad combination for pheasants and all other tough upland game duty. Favorite loads use nickel plated shot, ranging in size from #5 for the big roosters to #7 1/2 nickel plate for smaller game. Medium burn-rated powders plant the loads solidly into the magnum velocity category.

With the recent introduction of the X-Stream spreader, we've discovered a new level of pattern control for this lethal combination. Pattern fringes are reinforced and lethal, while the central pattern remains devastating. Using the X-Stream is easy. After you have dropped the shot charge, simply use the rammer tube to seat the X-Stream into the shot charge. Crimp up the load and you are ready for action.

The BP12, designed and patented by Ballistic Products in the mid-1970s, solves the problems of integrating the perfect gas seal with the perfect shotcup. The materials used to manufacture the shotcup are optimized for their job of carrying lead shot patterns (BP12) and producing lethal, high velocity steel shot patterns (the BP12 Tuff). The BPGS Gas Seals are designed, and use the best materials for the perfect gas seal. The BPGS seals fit directly to the base of the BP12. BPGS seals are even stackable, to create a double seal under the BP12, in loads we call the Pagoda method, creating stable, super-high velocity shotgun loads. The unique BP12/BPGS combination has been proven over the last 25 years, by shooters and writers, to be part of the best possible field loads. See for yourself the difference a true hunting wad makes in the field. Load capacities range from 1-1/8 oz. on up to 1-5/8 oz. of lead. BP12 Tuff Steel loads range from 7/8 and 1-oz.