I went and shot some trap Saturday morning. On the previous night I loaded up a box of 7/8oz loads in 12 gauge because I wanted to try them out some more. Unlike my last box of 7/8oz loads I went a little beyond “pedestrian” with the speed of them and picked a recipe that clocks in around 1250fps instead of 1150fps.
I liked ‘em. I only shot a 15 that round but my next one was only an 11 and that was with 1oz loads. I’ve gotten quite rusty.
Still, more data showing that lowering the number of pellets in your shotgun loads when you’re shooting off the 16 yard line in trap isn’t really all that detrimental to performance. I doubt I’d have had a single extra bird if I was running 1 1/8oz loads.
Cheaper practice too.
