Will Hewland
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Ok, Hamids cartridge review is a proper one. The following is much less so!
Shot today with Banger at EJC Challenge. It was a bleeding challenge in that wind!
Mindful of his impressive performance at RBSS (and other places), and noticing that some of his edge on kills have been heavy, I shot a couple of his Rio Target 7.5 28g plas wad cartridges today. It was on a nice easy stand, but produced two balls of soot, on par at least with my Clever T2's.
My first impression was that the recoil was almost identical to the Clever T2. (Banger agreed when he tried mine). So, nice on the shoulder, no hideous noise level etc. so that keeps my interest going, which could otherwise have stopped right there!
I took a few home and did a bit of quick pattern testing. The rough diameter of the pattern is just a shade bigger than the equivalent T2 or Hull Pro one, but the Rio does have a very good pellet distribution (pattern) for a cartridge in this price range. NOT an overly dense centre, although there are a few fliers at the outside. My gun is fixed half choke.
The 7.5 shot is 2.37mm according to the case, so that's nearly a UK 7 I think.
Can't comment on barrel cleanliness as I haven't shot enough.
I would be keen to try some 8 shot versions, to up the pellet count. Hopefully the patterns would not suffer too much, as smaller shot usually deforms more.
So in early summary, a VERY good value for money offering (£165 ish).
Shot today with Banger at EJC Challenge. It was a bleeding challenge in that wind!
Mindful of his impressive performance at RBSS (and other places), and noticing that some of his edge on kills have been heavy, I shot a couple of his Rio Target 7.5 28g plas wad cartridges today. It was on a nice easy stand, but produced two balls of soot, on par at least with my Clever T2's.
My first impression was that the recoil was almost identical to the Clever T2. (Banger agreed when he tried mine). So, nice on the shoulder, no hideous noise level etc. so that keeps my interest going, which could otherwise have stopped right there!
I took a few home and did a bit of quick pattern testing. The rough diameter of the pattern is just a shade bigger than the equivalent T2 or Hull Pro one, but the Rio does have a very good pellet distribution (pattern) for a cartridge in this price range. NOT an overly dense centre, although there are a few fliers at the outside. My gun is fixed half choke.
The 7.5 shot is 2.37mm according to the case, so that's nearly a UK 7 I think.
Can't comment on barrel cleanliness as I haven't shot enough.
I would be keen to try some 8 shot versions, to up the pellet count. Hopefully the patterns would not suffer too much, as smaller shot usually deforms more.
So in early summary, a VERY good value for money offering (£165 ish).
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