motty Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 Like ive said in the past its not totally down to the size of the shot or the gun or the chock its down to the person behind the gun fact Ive been using 7.5s for some time now and find very little difference from 28g 6s ,which i also use .For me it depends on price as i do alot of shooting so need to watch the pennys . As for taking long birds ive taken some over 50 yards with 7.5s i also dont find i have more or less pricked birds than i do with 6s . I will not use 32g 6s as the last lot did far to much damage to the birds and at the end i wont to sell them . Really its what ever you feel happy with im happy to shoot 7.5s and no alot that do so will keep using them for my decoying . Over the last 2 weeks ive shot over 700 birds with over 80% being shot with 7.5s shots taken from 15 yards to 45 yards few longer punts aswell . again its what your happy with that counts Agreed. It is the person behind the gun too. I have said before how i take better long range birds with an ounce of 7 1/2 than a mate of mine (who isn't a bad shot) who uses 32 gram 6's. I know how good light loads can be and have confidence in them. I believe what my eyes tell me and when i take down a long range left and right, i know that using light loads is fine. I shoot 95% of my pigeons between 20 and 45 yards. If every pigeon i shot at was between 50 and 60 yards i would be stupid to continue using clay loads and maybe go to 32gm 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris t Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 I personally use 32g most of the time (occasionaly 30g) either 5s or 6s. Generally because I like to take long range shots at pigeons which don't seem to come to the decoys, but fly by for a look. I like 5s also because I feel (possibly wrongly) that I have extra range and if I hit I'm likely to kill, if I miss, I miss, bird goes on unwounded. Since I dump all my birds couldn't careless if some birds are blown to bits. being a farmer trying to protect my rape crops, I'm just out to exterminate as many as I possibly can. It's no more complicated than that for me. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 I personally use 32g most of the time (occasionaly 30g) either 5s or 6s. Generally because I like to take long range shots at pigeons which don't seem to come to the decoys, but fly by for a look. I like 5s also because I feel (possibly wrongly) that I have extra range and if I hit I'm likely to kill, if I miss, I miss, bird goes on unwounded. Since I dump all my birds couldn't careless if some birds are blown to bits. being a farmer trying to protect my rape crops, I'm just out to exterminate as many as I possibly can. It's no more complicated than that for me. Chris You won't be too popular on here for admitting you dump all dead birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris t Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 your welcome to come and collect.... PM me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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