AW13
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Off to Southdown tomorrow [Weds] in the afternoon to try out some plastic vs fibre.
Questions regarding plastic and fibre wads
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I don't really shoot fibre at all to be honest, but I have shot a few power gold fibre and thought they were good. But personally prefer World Cup fibre (although they aren't everyone's cup of tea)
schmokinn
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World Cup fibre....nearly twice the price the ones i use,maybe i'll treat the auto for the Beretta World got to be worth at least 10% on my score!
AW13
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Test results.
Today I compared fibre with plastic to see whether I could determine any appreciable differences.
I already had some Power Blue 28 g 7.5 fibre so I bought a slab of the same but in plastic to have an identical as possible comparison.
I shot 100 sporting and then 2 rounds of skeet. I used the same choke for all cartridges and I shot each clay presentation with both fibre and plastic and to make sure I wasn’t favouring one type. I shot some fibre then plastic and some plastic first.
Various comments above have been confirmed,
Pattern: this is subjective as it relies on my ‘feel’ for the breaks but overall I got the firm impression that plastic does provide a tighter pattern. At least the clays consistently broke into smaller pieces and on one long edge shot I missed 3/5 with fibre but hit 5/5 with plastic. And I swapped the order to be sure it wasn’t me!!
Recoil: slightly more overall using fibre, but not much.
Smoothness: no real difference, maybe a very slight leaning towards plastic.
Noise and smell: no appreciable difference
Confetti vs plastic wad: didn’t really notice any plastic wads but quite a few times black confetti blew back towards me.
Overall conclusion: very little between them and if I was shooting fibre for a long edge shot I would probably put in a tighter choke. It was an interesting exercise for to learn the differences, or rather, lack of key differences.
Today I compared fibre with plastic to see whether I could determine any appreciable differences.
I already had some Power Blue 28 g 7.5 fibre so I bought a slab of the same but in plastic to have an identical as possible comparison.
I shot 100 sporting and then 2 rounds of skeet. I used the same choke for all cartridges and I shot each clay presentation with both fibre and plastic and to make sure I wasn’t favouring one type. I shot some fibre then plastic and some plastic first.
Various comments above have been confirmed,
Pattern: this is subjective as it relies on my ‘feel’ for the breaks but overall I got the firm impression that plastic does provide a tighter pattern. At least the clays consistently broke into smaller pieces and on one long edge shot I missed 3/5 with fibre but hit 5/5 with plastic. And I swapped the order to be sure it wasn’t me!!
Recoil: slightly more overall using fibre, but not much.
Smoothness: no real difference, maybe a very slight leaning towards plastic.
Noise and smell: no appreciable difference
Confetti vs plastic wad: didn’t really notice any plastic wads but quite a few times black confetti blew back towards me.
Overall conclusion: very little between them and if I was shooting fibre for a long edge shot I would probably put in a tighter choke. It was an interesting exercise for to learn the differences, or rather, lack of key differences.
