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Originally Posted by Ted Hicks
I always wondered if the shot manufacturers produce a lot of "off-spec" shot and the 1/2 sizes were a way to sell it rather than have to reprocess it.
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That's how it works. Shot doesn't drop all the exact same size, and has to be graded.
My buddy, Chuck, who helped me with the #10 article, measures every batch of shot, and sorts them by size. As an example: some number 7 1/2 Shot might be actually 7 1/4s. Some 8s might actually be 8 1/4 size. Right in the middle is 8 1/2s. More pellets in the pattern than 8s, more energy than 9s.
I don't let the shot size get in my head. See the bird, shoot the bird.
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