Usefulness of #9 shot

[Tom Flanigan]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

Okay, I'll be the black sheep. I don't like it for anything except clay birds at 25 yards or less.

https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums...698#Post600698

As can be read in the link I posted above I use 8s and 7 1/2s on quail. My hunting buddy uses 9s. Every instance I can remember of biting into a pellet in a quail breast is a 9. This is anecdotal, but is based on years of quail shooting. Anyone who understands basic physics should be able to understand that a 9 is much less likely to pass through a quail breast than an 8, or a 7 1/2, all else being equal.

SRH

I don't know about that Stan. A lot of my grouse had #9 shot that passed all the way through the breast and stopped in the skin on the far side. I found it very common. I used to cut the skin to take the pellet out.