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<blockquote data-quote="DartonJager" data-source="post: 1633320" data-attributes="member: 95733"><p>erle and F4ad,</p><p>Thanks for the additional great advice. There were/are only 2 reasons I considered still using 3.5" shells. #1 a 12ga 3.5" W/#9 shot has 91 more pellets than 3" shells and I'm being 100% honest and not trying to make myself out to be any tougher than the next average Joe in saying for what ever reason recoil doesn't have much affect one me. I would stop short of saying I am immune to recoil, but I can easily handle about 20 12ga 3.5" 2oz/2.125oz turkey loads and another 20 12ga 3" 1.75oz in a single days shooting from the bench off sand bags along with at least another 5 each of 3.5" and 3" while practice shooting from hunting positions. I do wear a PAST Magnum recoil shoulder protector and have replaced all my factory recoil pads with Sims Laboratory Limbsaver Airtech recoil pads, but that's it. Will add after using them for hundreds of combined rounds from my 300wsm, 338wm, 300wm 7mm STW 12ga turkey and slug guns and well over 1000 rounds out of my smokeless ML's the Limbsaver recoil pads ACTUALLY work as well as claimed.</p><p></p><p>I was rather amazed when I heard the recoil of a 12ga 2oz turkey load with a MV of 1200fps has recoil equivalent of a 404 Jeffery, although I still haven't used a recoil calculator to confirm if that statement is true or not.</p><p></p><p>You are correct in there are no varying degrees of dead and X amount more of pellets in a turkeys kill zone wont kill it any deader than the 10-20 that are already there.</p><p>I will as advised try one box of 3" and 3.5" and see what works best and then see if i want to reload my own.</p><p>My problem is I dearly love to reload and know it saves me no $$$ what so ever just allows me to shoot more for the same money as if I didn't. I didn't help matters when I bought my 300wsm and didn't know how scarce brass was to reload for it I ended up buying some Federal blue box hunting ammo just to have brass to reload and no B.S. first three shots I fired with it at 100 gave me a .6" group, and most reloaders with intermediate skills and equipment would be happy if their reloads shot .6 MOA.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DartonJager, post: 1633320, member: 95733"] erle and F4ad, Thanks for the additional great advice. There were/are only 2 reasons I considered still using 3.5" shells. #1 a 12ga 3.5" W/#9 shot has 91 more pellets than 3" shells and I'm being 100% honest and not trying to make myself out to be any tougher than the next average Joe in saying for what ever reason recoil doesn't have much affect one me. I would stop short of saying I am immune to recoil, but I can easily handle about 20 12ga 3.5" 2oz/2.125oz turkey loads and another 20 12ga 3" 1.75oz in a single days shooting from the bench off sand bags along with at least another 5 each of 3.5" and 3" while practice shooting from hunting positions. I do wear a PAST Magnum recoil shoulder protector and have replaced all my factory recoil pads with Sims Laboratory Limbsaver Airtech recoil pads, but that's it. Will add after using them for hundreds of combined rounds from my 300wsm, 338wm, 300wm 7mm STW 12ga turkey and slug guns and well over 1000 rounds out of my smokeless ML's the Limbsaver recoil pads ACTUALLY work as well as claimed. I was rather amazed when I heard the recoil of a 12ga 2oz turkey load with a MV of 1200fps has recoil equivalent of a 404 Jeffery, although I still haven't used a recoil calculator to confirm if that statement is true or not. You are correct in there are no varying degrees of dead and X amount more of pellets in a turkeys kill zone wont kill it any deader than the 10-20 that are already there. I will as advised try one box of 3" and 3.5" and see what works best and then see if i want to reload my own. My problem is I dearly love to reload and know it saves me no $$$ what so ever just allows me to shoot more for the same money as if I didn't. I didn't help matters when I bought my 300wsm and didn't know how scarce brass was to reload for it I ended up buying some Federal blue box hunting ammo just to have brass to reload and no B.S. first three shots I fired with it at 100 gave me a .6" group, and most reloaders with intermediate skills and equipment would be happy if their reloads shot .6 MOA. [/QUOTE]
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