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< 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Herters on Sale Cabelas |
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Sun Oct 08, 2017 4:15 pm
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Joined: 15 Jun 2010
Posts: 1358
Location: Twin Cities, MN
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I thought this might be a learning opportunity. I’ll go away. |
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Posted:
Sun Oct 08, 2017 5:12 pm
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 9472
Location: Amarillo, Texas
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DO NOT go away, you are like YODA |
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Posted:
Sun Oct 08, 2017 10:53 pm
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Joined: 08 Feb 2009
Posts: 1316
Location: Western WA
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MatthewWyatt,
Stand your ground, wads can go 75 yds and farther. And once they get up in the breeze they can fly off just about anywhere. Our club shelters, sidewalks, and parking lot are littered with them, and those are all uprange behind the shooters! Who knows how far some of them end up downrange. |
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Mon Oct 09, 2017 5:45 am
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Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Posts: 1257
Location: Nebraska
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I started shooting a light O/U at Trap last year and used 7/8oz factory loadings at 1200fps from Federal and Fiocchi. The wads from the Italian shells looked like some kind of G-design, and if anything could soar 75 yards, they were it. Straight flight paths for the most part, too. As effective as anything I shot in the way of 1oz, at singles, doubles and short handicap. |
_________________ Bore, n. Shotgun enthusiast's synonym for "gauge" ; everybody else's synonym for "shotgun enthusiast." - Ed Zern |
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Mon Oct 09, 2017 10:58 am
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Joined: 12 Sep 2010
Posts: 1975
Location: Maine
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Wait until the lawnmower gets a hold of them. You'll find wads e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e.
My gun club has to get an annual reinspection from the local PD, because of our zoning. And every year we have to do police walks to make sure the wads that migrated find their way into the trash. That said, the downrange area of the trap field is fairly paved in wads. |
_________________ “A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”
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Mon Oct 09, 2017 11:20 am
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Joined: 08 Aug 2011
Posts: 1946
Location: Central CT
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Without assistance from the wind I doubt that wads travel 65 yards.
Standing on station 3 on a trap field, that wad would have to make it to the 50 yard pin where a legal trap target should fall that would be 66 yards.
I think we are exaggerating just a bit. |
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Mon Oct 09, 2017 4:10 pm
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Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Posts: 1257
Location: Nebraska
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Pretty rare for there to be exaggerations when it comes to shotgunning, i'd admit. |
_________________ Bore, n. Shotgun enthusiast's synonym for "gauge" ; everybody else's synonym for "shotgun enthusiast." - Ed Zern |
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Posted:
Fri Oct 13, 2017 3:04 am
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Joined: 19 Apr 2014
Posts: 429
Location: Maine
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If the wind is out of the NE with low humidity, and a full moon it could happen but not today because it's Friday the 13th.
Herters 16ga 1 oz #8s no longer on sale. "May the Force Be With You" |
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Sat Oct 14, 2017 2:27 pm
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Joined: 19 Nov 2016
Posts: 44
Location: Oklahoma
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Yes the wads don't break apart but doesn't affect my shooting at all. I really like the herters have shot 5 flats lately shoot really good for me. |
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