Just had some dental work done on the shooting side of my mouth, so I'm going to load some 3/4 ounce shells. Anyone have any recipes for 3/4 ounce loads? What fps can I get up to and still keep recoil low? Anyone have experience with 3/4 ounce loads? Anyone ever break 25 from the 16 yard line with them? Thanks.
Nobody? O.K. I'll load some and tell you skirts how they work out. Still waiting on my charge bar...and weather above -8.
I was using them when I was shooting the Model 12 and never got 25 but many 24s, I used a Apex (Hornady) loader and bushing # 397 700x powder reclaimed shot. Tom
Claybuster has 12 gauge 3/4 oz. wads and lists the load data with the bag. Load data is also available on their website...Larry
As a follow up I shot some 3/4 oz loads today I had loaded for a friend. Worked well for skeet, no problem with second shot in my over under. I was using AAHS hulls, W209 primer, 15.4 grains of Red Dot with the Claybuster wads for 3/4 oz. I liked it I might start using it regularly...Larry
Several years ago Claybuster was a shoot and giving out samples. I wound up with 1000 3/4 oz wads. Loaded them with 19 gr Intl' in a Gun Club hull. I would suggest using them on skeet, but with a tight choke, they should work well on the 16 yard line. 3/4 oz and free wads gets the cost of a box of 12's down to the middle threes per box.
Hard to argue with Mac1. If the gun kicks too hard, it is too light or simply does not fit. I intend to shoot my 3/4 ouncers at close Sporting targets or Skeet.
The fact is, speed kills. Been shooting 3/4 oz. in 28,20,12 for years. Pleasant to shoot, and extremely effective. More is not always better. If you are shooting Games or FITASC, O.K, 1 oz. is needed for those 4th shot/80 yd. Teal shots. For Skeet and 16 yd. Trap, 1 1/8 loads are just overkill, on both ends. Get the Claybuster pink 3/4 wads, and I have had great success with E3 and Nitro 100NF powders. Not a lot published on 3/4 oz. loads, so I followed the advice of several other posters and dropped powder for book 7/8 oz. loads, followed by 3/4 oz. shot. Works great! You can use 7/8 or even 1 oz. wads too. Just fill top space with Quaker puffed rice/oats. Scratched a 50 at skeet with them week ago, with Cyl/Cyl. chokes.!
Broke 25 from the 16 yard line? I have done it several times, as a matter of fact I have done it a few times from the 27 yard line. Back when I was in my hay days of trap shooting that’s all I practiced with was 3/4 oz. loads. It must have helped because I carried a 98.3 singles average along with a 27 yard handicap.
I was listening to one of the Older shooters at the club telling everyone how great and soft shooting the 3/4 oz loads are and how he highly suggest people load them ... He said besides saving a bunch of shot and not putting as much shot out in the grass it is a money saver ... I confronted him a little while later and mentioned I didn't know he loaded 3/4 oz shells and that he was such an advocate of saving the earth for all of the no good doers ... He laughed and said he don't load and never has shot any 3/4 oz loads but if he gets others to do it, it gives him an advantage when they are shooting against each other ... Makes no sense to me but people cheat even if it don't matter, it seems ... WPT ... (YAC) ...
I have been shooting 3/4 oz loads with # 9 shot for first shooting doubles and also sporting clays for any targets out to 35 yards with no change in my scores. Any thing over 35 yards I use 1ounce of 7 1/2. A few years ago I grabbed one of my 303 Berettas to shoot a regerstered shoot at the Silver Dollar and grabbed my 303 Sporting gun I had 2 one Trap and one sporting by mistake with a Pure Gold 15 th LM choke. Got there just in time my squad was getting ready when I got there so just went out and shot a 98 with 1 1/8 ounce shells. I think I learned something very valuable because of the LM choke I was worried about the pattern so shot faster than I usually did and was crushing them.
