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What About Low-Recoil Ammo?You’ll find companies such as Winchester and Remington make special low-recoil shotshells. These are among the most successful solutions to make recoil livable.
In addition to low recoil, they are quieter -- delivering an overall pleasant shooting experience. If you’re going to experiment with these loads, they should be used for targets. These low-recoil loads can be upwards of 20% slower than your normal load. Use them on birds and you could end up with plenty of cripples.
Low-recoil loads get back to the basics of ballistics. They give you a more comfortable shooting experience with less powder -- or a slow-burning powder that doesn’t kick as hard as faster burning powder. The payoff could be a 50% cut in recoil.
You can easily break as many targets with these low-recoil loads as with conventional ammo when it comes to skeet and 16-yard trap. You may even find they work well on handicap trap up to about 20 yards.
But bear in mind that the velocity of these loads is typically no faster than 1,000 fps. You may find some low-recoil shotshells can travel in the 1,100-fps range, which is more than sufficient for clay targets.
