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Originally Posted by Michael Moffa
Unreformed engineer here but when I did these calculations about a decade ago a 1oz load at 1200fps was 16 pounds force. (this was my standard Clays load for skeet and sporting clays). When I started to shoot International skeet, I made up some 1 1/8 oz loads at 1550 fps for second shot at stations 3, 4 and 5. These forced out at 35 lbs of free recoil. You had to be a man to pull the trigger a second time. I only used three of these shells per round.
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I have been playing around with these recoil calculators that are free online. Most of the time for shotgun loads they say how many drams and not grains. However not certain if they use dram equivalent to black powder but I suspect they are using maybe modern powder weights/grains. Very confusing since modern powders you use less of it but boxes of shells are marked for black powder equivalency and you don't know how much or what type powder off the shelf loads are using. At least I can't find out. Active reloaders set it straight for me some. I think 35 lbs is probably about right on heavy loads. I think Drew and other are right but its dang confusing.
I know about heavy loads and getting the snot kicked out of me. I have a Browning BPS pump that I use for Turkey's. It has a 3.5 inch load I use, or it uses me. Feel like your loading a roman candle in your gun, and when it goes off your getting all of it in that gun. No recoil reduction. Testing patterns I shot about five rounds. The first two where surprising, shots 3-5 were just punishment. It paid off though. I took a really nice gobbler at 60 yards with that gun. Actually thought he was at 40 but it was in a pasture with a little roll to the hill and its really hard to judge distance in open ground like that, but when stepped it off it was 60 and it dropped in his tracks. If I thought he was at 60 would have let him go, still probably more luck than skill, but he was a big old bird and gobbled in front of us for an hour on other side of the field. He got as close as he was coming and strutted for 10 minutes back and forth daring our jake and hen setup to come to him. He was a crafty one and was about to walk off.
Big game for the Tigers tomorrow. Its do or don't time. Auburn has a history of being one of the most dangerous underdog teams in the country. If your an SEC football fan that is a must watch game. I predicted Auburn would beat Georgia a few weeks ago. Its really a pick um game.