Just curious, how are you choosing ammo for skeet or trap as "practice" for pheasant season? I'm not necessarily talking for shooting round after round with your sporting gun, but shooting your upland gun, are you selecting brands or loads similar to what your using on birds? Or cheapest high quality you can buy to kill clay?
Ammo for Clays
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That1uncle1776
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The cheapest I can find normally. They are always slower than my hunting loads. Im starting to think the fps doesnt need to be the exact same, slower is probably better to practice with so your lead is slightly farther ahead of the bird. Im sure some one can break down the math of how much your lead will change at 40 yards with like a 1350 fps vs 1200 fps.
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The faster load is going to get to the target a 40 yds. approx. 0.012 seconds faster. I doubt the lead would change much, maybe inches. And your pattern at 40 yds. would certainly cover any difference. Just my quick calculation.
Joe Hunter
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The cheapest target loads you can find at any big box store! Forget matching load and velocity! This is practice so concentrate on shooting fundamentals, move, mount, and shoot!!! Not what load you are using for clays!
uplandokie
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Most organized trap, skeet and sporting clays facilities won't allow anything larger than 7.5 shot at 1 1/8 oz at 1300. I'd say federal or fiocchi promo loads of 1 1/8 7.5 at 1200 would be good for pre season practice.