7.5 or 8 shot for trap?

Light 7.5s for practice promo shells like super targets

Light 8s AA singles and doubles

Heavy 7.5s AA for caps.

Super handicap 7.5s and 8s for sporting clay.
 
Falconflyer said:
Did you know there would be that many long shots before you started? Doesn’t sound like your thing.
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I set them. I love long targets.

My inept sense of humour was trying to get across your 4O plus yard shells would kill me. Without much luck I should add.
 
I recall the late Don Zutz addressing this issue and bringing the antimony level in the shot into the equation.

Was the amount of antimony in the shot significant?

Don Zutz concluded the same as Mister Ashcroft has on this thread.

If you think it does.
 
About the only thing that higher levels of antimony in the lead will do for you is to help lessen pellet deformation as it gets slammed through the forcing cone and choke which results in better streamlining of the pellets. Better streamlining of the pellets results in less flyers and a tiny bit more retained energy with reduced stringing. In other words, there is a benefit to using hard shot on far away targets and if that gains you one target in competition then it's worth it. That's not to say you can't break far away targets with soft shot but you need to take advantage of every little thing if you're going to win because you can bet that the good shooters you're competing against are! For close target's however the benefits are not worth the extra cost of the hard shot in my opinion.
 
Falconflyer said:
About the only thing that higher levels of antimony in the lead will do for you is to help lessen pellet deformation as it gets slammed through the forcing cone and choke which results in better streamlining of the pellets. Better streamlining of the pellets results in less flyers and a tiny bit more retained energy with reduced stringing. In other words, there is a benefit to using hard shot on far away targets and if that gains you one target in competition then it's worth it. That's not to say you can't break far away targets with soft shot but you need to take advantage of every little thing if you're going to win because you can bet that the good shooters you're competing against are! For close target's however the benefits are not worth the extra cost of the hard shot in my opinion.
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True
 
the spank said:
I've heard for years this is the standard wear for skeet shooters. Do you have one of these 3Macs1 :confused: :p
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That's a nice skirt for sure. But then again that's a misleading label. As a man divorced twice, I can make a case that the word TRAP printed on that skirt better describes what's inside. :xes
 
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