If you can quad load what's your loading strategy for a 5+1 or 7+1 pump?

[lavino]

First of all I am a newbie and have zero experience so may be I don't even know what I am talking about (so don't roast me too hard please ).... this is some after-thought from watching some videos showing people doing diff things in competitions. But these guys (US shooters) always have mag tube that sticks out like an 10ft pole... I do understand that in Canada semi is limited to 5 but pump can go up to 8+1 or more right?

Let's keep it simple at first and say you don't have to care about the type of rounds for now and you can use the same type of round for now.

The perfect world is if your mag tube holds 8 rounds I guess? But if you only have a 5+1. You even bother loading that 5th round at all?

What if this is a 7+1? Would your strategy change? Or is it better to do double loading 3X or quad + double?

Is there any advantage to load an extra single round just because the capacity is an add number? (I think not but I could be wrong) Is there something else I missed or should consider?

Now, if you have to worry about the type of round you use do you then feed 1 by 1 and count? Also, is it possible to cycle the last round but not firing it but then you reload and found that you need a different type of round? What now? Do you just firing off that round in the chamber anyway hope for the best? Or you cycle it once more to get the correct type of round you wanted while wasting a perfectly good round just to save time?

I just started to think about these for I have zero experience. The more I think the more I realize it's nothing like doing paper target at the range at all. May be I overthink and got it all wrong or something. If I am wrong please tell me what is correct and what you guys do in these situations?

 

[Onagoth]

A 3" semi can legally hold 6 rounds of 2 3/4" shotshells which works out to a quad and double.

Worse comes to worse, just try the quad and drop all the extra rounds on the ground if they don't fit.... We've all done it

 

[sly mantis]

What you do depends on the capacity and the situation. You plan a stage around your capacity and loading.
If a shooting position requires more than 4 rounds and Im going into that position empty, then ill do two quad loads. It only requires 4 or less rounds and I have time into the next position, ill only do one. Or if there is a very short transition between the two positions, ill do two quad loads of the bat, then book it into the second position. Or if I have a lot of time going into the first position, even if there is time between positions 1 and 2, ill probably top up the shotgun and again book it between 1 and 2.

As you can see, the stage your planning will dictate more how you load. Yes, things get more complicated with Canadian capacity restrictions, but this just requires you to think around them in your stage planning. Shoot a match and this will become more clear then watching videos.

 

[pauls]

In most cases, you can devise a strategy where you can divide up the targets in a course of fire into arrays you can shoot from a few positions, and have enough capacity in your gun to shoot each array at each position or on the move to the next position.
Ideally, you are loading up while moving between these shooting positions to avoid wasted time of a stationary reload.

If the match doesn't work out that way, you may have to do a stationary reload, but try to minimize it.

In pump, you aren't legally limited in capacity so get yourself a magazine extension and have fun.