How much difference have people noticed when switching from one velocity shell to another? Here's the background:
- I have become an avid skeet shooter and started reloading for the first time this weekend. I enjoy it (both the shooting and reloading), and based on local prices I'm saving nearly a dime per shell.
- I normally shoot Winchester AA, 8.5 shot, 1 1/8oz, 1145fps. For my reloads, I'm using the same hulls and shot, but I use 1oz, and the only recipes I can find for my combination of powder/hull/equipment are for 1200-1250fps.
- I went to shoot with reloads today for the first time. Perhaps I was a little out of the zone and not completely into my game...but I felt off. Statistically, shooters do just as well with 1oz as they do with 1 1/8oz (hence the popularity of 20ga or 1oz loads for lower costs and recoil). So I wondered if shooting a higher velocity might account for a change in performance. Otherwise it was just me being off today and I need to focus on my mental game (state championships are in two weeks).
I thought about putting this in the reloading forum...but 99.99% of those posts are about "bullets" and not shell reloading. If anybody knows of a recipe for the above settings (and using the bushings for a MEC Sizemaster), I'd be interested.
Cheers,
Method
- I have become an avid skeet shooter and started reloading for the first time this weekend. I enjoy it (both the shooting and reloading), and based on local prices I'm saving nearly a dime per shell.
- I normally shoot Winchester AA, 8.5 shot, 1 1/8oz, 1145fps. For my reloads, I'm using the same hulls and shot, but I use 1oz, and the only recipes I can find for my combination of powder/hull/equipment are for 1200-1250fps.
- I went to shoot with reloads today for the first time. Perhaps I was a little out of the zone and not completely into my game...but I felt off. Statistically, shooters do just as well with 1oz as they do with 1 1/8oz (hence the popularity of 20ga or 1oz loads for lower costs and recoil). So I wondered if shooting a higher velocity might account for a change in performance. Otherwise it was just me being off today and I need to focus on my mental game (state championships are in two weeks).
I thought about putting this in the reloading forum...but 99.99% of those posts are about "bullets" and not shell reloading. If anybody knows of a recipe for the above settings (and using the bushings for a MEC Sizemaster), I'd be interested.
Cheers,
Method