Fed. Promo's...
They've done alright by me. I've been able to shoot low 20's in trap with them.
I seemed to pick up about 2 clays a round when I switched to AA this season. Although I suspect that has more to do with velocity than the shot or the pattern. (AA's are certainly noticably harder recoiling than Fed. promos in my 870) I certainly shot better this leauge, picking up about 20 more birds than last year.
I suspect that the reason I'm doing better with the AA's is my shooting and not the shells, at least directly. My guess is that the extra velocity, and just perhaps, the harder shot, turns 1-2 clays that would have been a dusted loss with the promo loads, into a break with the AA's, when I did a bad job of getting them centered in the pattern.
So it's my wholly uneducated and intuitive guess that AA's will let you get lucky with a flyer more often since that flyer has just a bit more hardness and velocity than a promo. If you're competent (unlike me
) I doubt it makes a difference in trap at all.
BTW, Dave, what does it mean when you shoot better than you ever have when you pick up a shotgun for the first time in 6 months, then never repeat that performance for the rest of the season?
I shot back to back 23's (my personal best, such as it is) during the handicapping round, and most of my team had similar results, and we did so well we got bumped up a leauge (hint, it' classification has only one letter, if that tells you anything about what a pack of duffers we are.) where we promptly got spanked for the rest of the season.