[shotgunner50]

How do you mix them so that you know each cartridge has 75% of one and 25% of the other?

How do you know?

I do the same and to insure accuracy I count out the different size shot for each load !

 

[porthos]

mixing 7.5 and 8.5 shot WOW!!!!

 

[Mannelac]

Can anyone really tell the differance between a #7.5 and a #8 load?? I shoot trap and am not good enough to really get a feel between the two.
Which do you use ?

From 16 yards no difference from handicap. I would lean more towards 7 1/2 more retained energy down range

 

[jk80]

 

[peavine]

The horse that refuses to die !!!

Must be a zombie horse...

 

[JBrooks]

I always answer "8". After all, it's not like they are going to measure, is it?

 

[Savage99Stan]

For me, #8s for practice (1 oz), #8s for 16-19 (1 1/8), 7 1/2 beyond that.

 

[Bowhunter41]

Doesn’t matter. See bird, break bird

 

[Bowhunter41]

 

[grizquad]

 

[pheasantmaster]

I’m confident that one 7 1/2 will break the target in all conditions from 16yds but Iam not confident that one 7 1/2 pellet will break a long yardage target as I believe it takes atleast two and maybe three pellets to fracture the target sufficiently to spin apart.

So I use 7 1/2’s for 16’s and use 8’s for handicap to gain more pellets on the target.

 

[Ram Rod]

When I wear “Sight Trax” Lenses ,I can clearly see that 8 shot is better.

 

[kehrby]

Does Tron actually have some competition?🤣

 

[Model42luvr]

Here we go again.

 

[spitter]

Can anyone really tell the differance between a #7.5 and a #8 load?? I shoot trap and am not good enough to really get a feel between the two.
Which do you use ?

Well... since you asked... 9s from 16. 8s mid yardage and 7-1/2s from the 25-27...

 

[just_bob]

1-1/4 oz target 6's all the way.

 

[Donnie W]

When I wear “Sight Trax” Lenses ,I can clearly see that 8 shot is better.

Shameless Plug.

 

[Pull & Mark]

Can we bring up which choke to use tomorrow??? break em all Jeff

 

[Accuracy Analytics LLC]

I’m confident that one 7 1/2 will break the target in all conditions from 16yds but Iam not confident that one 7 1/2 pellet will break a long yardage target as I believe it takes atleast two and maybe three pellets to fracture the target sufficiently to spin apart.

So I use 7 1/2’s for 16’s and use 8’s for handicap to gain more pellets on the target.

Interesting...your logic is the opposite of everyone I have seen/heard, who all advocate 8's for singles, 7.5 for handicap. This leads me to two possible conclusions
1. You are messing with the OP (a very likely scenario)
2. You should use 9's for handicap to further increase your odds of multiple hits

Unfortunately, using smaller shot doesn't lead to enough of a higher probability of "one more" pellet strike to justify the loss of energy/velocity compared to larger shot. You only get 17% more 8's (compared to 7.5's) so at most that one pellet strike with 7.5s becomes 1.17 pellet strikes with 8's. Since pellets only come in eaches, you don't get "one more" pellet strike unless you already are getting many, many strikes with 7.5's. And at that point it doesn't matter.

 

[Accuracy Analytics LLC]

As many have stated on the numerous other threads covering this topic (or beating it to death), all shells are a mix of sizes anyway. Some Cheddite (edit 7.5 shot) shells I got my hands on recently were particularly bad

But a bag of Heper shot that was marked 7 1/2 gave me this result