If all you are given is a bunch of 'cheap' shots that pattern very poorly, chances are you would instinctively load more shot in a shell to improve your odds of hitting a target. Quite plausibly, this natural instinct was what invented shot gun in the first place back in the olden days of hand cannons.
However, overloading shells with shot is not an effective strategy for the following reasons:
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- Given the same amount of charge, the resulting thrust it generates will be distributed among the projectiles, including wad, buffering material, etc. according the the Law of Conservation of Energy. Therefore, the more stuff you pack in a shell, the less energy each pellet will ultimately carry when it hits the quarry.
- As with the fire-exit of a room, if you fill the room with people beyond its capacity, evacuation will be slowed. Even worst, stampede might occur in case of a fire. By the same token, if a shell is overloaded, the pellets will jam and interfere each other. Energy will therefore dissipate; and the shot pattern will be negatively affected.
With Nice Shot, which already patterns so well, the loading strategy obviously should not be that of improving the hitting odds. Rather, it should be that of the economy of shot. i.e. What is the minimum number of pellets to load such that each pellet will carry maximum energy to the quarry?
Since Nice Shot has a density very close to that of lead, we can start off by leveraging the time honored lead loading data. From there, we can incrementally lower the number of pellets per load and study the patterns. This forum is open to all Nice Shot users to share their reloading experiences. We cordially invite you to participate and benefit the community. We are particularly fortunate to have Big Dan, a hunter, inventor and President of Nice Shot, Inc. as our moderator.
Finally, while we are working hard to lower the cost of production and pass the savings back to you, we are pretty much powerless confronting the global energy and material price surges. Until such surges subside, minimizing the number of pellets per load will certainly help stretch the dollar a bit -- a nice little bonus for loading it right.
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