Study on 3 1/2" duck loads

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[quote="GordonGekko"]people have known about shot string for quite a while...and honestly, i hate to put it this way, but don't put too much stock in it.... theory or not, here is the real world breakdown, say the shot string is 5 feet long (just for arguments sake), and the shot is moving at 1200 feet per second. That means that the shot at the back of the string would get to the target .00416 seconds after the first pellet arrived. So the real question becomes how far will the target move during that time.

if a target is moving 60 miles per hour (on a perpindicular line to the shot) (way faster than most ducks), it will cover 88 feet per second. In .00426 seconds it will move .36608 feet, or 4.4 inches...so the last pellet will hit roughly 4.4 inches behind the first...so if the first shot hits the bill the last pellet should hit the base of the neck, or somewhere in that vacinity, right? if you lenghten the shot string to 8 feet long, the last shot will impact 7 inches behind the first, meaning most of the pellets still arrive in the kill zone....

now in the real world...most ducks probably move at around 30 to 40 mph (wide open), give or take so you can reduce the difference by 33-50%, so you end up with the last shot trailing the first by 2.2 inches, or 3.5 inches respectively, on a duck moving 30 mph perpindicular to the shot string.... In the real world, on ducks and geese this isn't an issue...if more shot leaves the barrel more shot will end up on the target....//[quote]



Damn-it, they said no math was needed to duck hunt, now i am screwed, dang public schools.....

[Wildfowler]

I like to shoot 3 & 1/2 steel for the added velocity. I opt for the 1 and 3/8 ounce load cranked up to 1550 fps. 1 and 3/8 ounce has been the standard 3 inch steel load forever. The difference being that the 3 & 1/2 load is about 250 FPS faster than most of the 3 inch loads.

I personally think it makes a big difference. I'm guessing that there is no difference in shot sting between the two loads I have referenced since the payload is the same. Don't know for sure, and am not sure I should even be concerned about it.

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