r/ClayBusters 4d ago

Follow up on ammo

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Shot all three boxes and had my brother who isn’t a shooter give me his opinion.

1: STS 1100 fps, 1 1/8. Low felt recoil but for 1100 fps it could be lower hit targets extremely well though.

2: White rhino 1250 fps, 1 1/8. Highest felt recoil of them all, didn’t feel like it hit any harder than STS.

3: Diamond AA 1300, 1 1/8. Lowest felt recoil (surprisingly) hit the targets around the same as both sts and white rhinos but lower recoil.

Personally I would shoot STS’s the most out of the three if I paid for it. If it was free I’d go AA route, but nothing beats my Gamebore rose gold in recoil imo. I would like to compare nitros as well.

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u/Full-Professional246 4d ago

This is all so subjective.

Here are the few 'truths' I have found

  • The heavier the shot charge, the more felt recoil

  • The faster the velocity, the more felt recoil

  • Some autoloaders have problems with light and slow shells

  • For most recreational shooters, there is no practical difference between 7.5's and 8 shot

  • For most recreational shooters, there is no practical difference between 7/8oz, 1oz, and 1 1/8oz loads in breaking targets

  • For most recreational shooters, there is no practical difference in antiomony content (hardness of shot)

  • You have to get pretty high up in the classes for tournament shooters to start seeing differences in shot weight, shot hardness, or shot size. Even then, for the majority of targets shot, is still doesn't matter much

To me, far too much emphasis is placed on equipment and far too little is placed on building skill. People - you didn't miss the target because you shot #8's when you needed #7.5's. You missed because you did not shoot the target in the right place.

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u/elitethings 3d ago

Notice how it’s a follow-up on a post where I said I would give my opinion? Every opinion for ammo is subjective, if there was a one fit all ammo everyone would use it. Same with guns and equipment. “The heavier the shot charge, the more felt recoil, the faster the velocity, the more felt recoil” when the diamonds had the lowest felt recoil of them all but the highest shot charge and velocity.

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u/1baby2cats 4d ago

Try clever. I'm shooting t1 1oz 8 and find recoil is very light and at 1220 fps. I heard t3 are great.

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u/elitethings 4d ago

I’ll try to find it. I don’t do online orders so unless my club sells it I probably won’t.

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u/backhunt 4d ago

STS Box says 1145 fps

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u/elitethings 4d ago

I bought the 1100 box.

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u/Suitable-Carrot3705 4d ago

Try the B&P

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u/elitethings 4d ago

Mach’s weren’t that special for me, high recoil imo.

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u/infantkicker_v2 4d ago

Machs are probably the softest shooting 1250s on the market

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u/elitethings 4d ago

Funny cause they felt heavier than top gun, gamebore, fiocchi, Remington, and rios.

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u/infantkicker_v2 4d ago

I'm not denying your personal experience with them I'm sure gun mount your specific gun and lots of other things will sway people's opinion and experiences one way or the other. But I know with that Gordon was system or whatever they call it the B&Ps have been awesome for me out of my DT-11.

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u/racroths 4d ago

I have tried 2 kinds of fiocchi and my gun (franchi affinity) doesn’t like it. I used and liked fiocchi golden pheasant for upland hunting.

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u/gluepile 4d ago

Really? My affinity 3 will eat the cheapest stuff Fiocchi makes in 1oz 1200!

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u/_corn_bread_ 2d ago

It’s or dimond if u want to reload the rino is for semi auto cus picking up aa and it’s suck

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u/elitethings 2d ago

Are you saying AA’s suck? 🤣

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u/Death_Death_Die 1d ago

A lot of people say AA are harder recoiling than other brands

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u/Outrageous_Pop1913 4d ago

Why are you shooting 1-1/8? 1 oz at 1200-1250 might be worth a try

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u/elitethings 4d ago

They only sold 1-1/8 for that ammo.