I usually shoot skeet pretty exclusively, with a round of sporting clays thrown in now and then. My friend that I have been teaching skeet said "let's go shoot some trap next time", so we did. It's been since last August since I shot 2 round of trap, so I figured I would miss a few, but ended up with 3 24's at the 16 yard line. I was using my M12 and 7/8oz loads of 8.5's, powderpuff light loads running about 1175 fps, and absolutely destroying the targets.
My trap gun.
A 1963 Model 12 with an Anton rollover cheek stock.
Nice factory full choke throws a beautiful tight even pattern. I used to shoot quite a few games under the lights at our club, it will take out targets beyond the 27 yard line in shoot-offs where we walked back an additional 15 yards. Of course those weren't standard target shells, they were 1.25oz of heavy reloads pushing 1350fps, #7's. When we got back out of where the lights didn't shine down, it really weeded the people out that couldn't shoot without seeing their barrel and bead.
My trap gun.
A 1963 Model 12 with an Anton rollover cheek stock.
Nice factory full choke throws a beautiful tight even pattern. I used to shoot quite a few games under the lights at our club, it will take out targets beyond the 27 yard line in shoot-offs where we walked back an additional 15 yards. Of course those weren't standard target shells, they were 1.25oz of heavy reloads pushing 1350fps, #7's. When we got back out of where the lights didn't shine down, it really weeded the people out that couldn't shoot without seeing their barrel and bead.