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My stash of Mike Dotson era B&Ps have shot sized #6.5, if labelled #6. IMO, this is the most versatile size for field use, covering WC and quail to scratch phez at 40 yds well. I like their "#5"s (= #5.5), too.
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Just my opinion, but i think i can pretty well say why we have #7˝ shot. Back 100 plus years or so ago the list of available sizes were virtually unlimited, including many half sizes, & all those big ones which have been re-introduced in steel, but they were of course lead back then. Around the time of WWI the factories began "Streamlining" & reducing the offerings. The "Big" sellrs stayed, the slower sellers went, simple as that. Thus #7˝ stayed because a lot of folks were using it.
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It probably has it's roots in the fact that 7 1/2 is the largest (and most popular) shot size for regiterd trap even though 7s were a favorite of live bird shooters that requred tough bird to be anchored in the bird ring to be scored.
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Of anecdotal note, 7 1/2 is what Vice President Cheney was quail hunting with when the accidental shooting of Harry Whittington occurred. I probably shoot 7 1/2 at quail more than any other size.
Last edited by Chuck H; 01/01/14 04:06 PM.
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I have a monster shot chart by Fiocchi but it is a pdf and I have no idea how to get that into a post.
is it even possible?
have a day
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There was a lot of experimentation with shot sizes in late XIX century Britain - finding the 'magic' number of pellets per load which would kill grouse (partridge, pheasant) best. However, from the marketing perspective, naming the new shot sizes according to No of pellets per ounce or per load was confusing for customers, so if the new size was smaller than 5 but bigger than 6 it was called 5 1/2, and so on. 7 1/2 is about the only survivor of the battle.
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Why do we have 7.5 shot ?
danc Because it splits the "difference" between 7 & 8. 
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Number one reason we have size 7 1/2 shot ............. people buy it. If they did not the market forces would work and eventually there would be none for sale.
If I had to give up either 7 1/2s or 8s, the 8s would go bye-bye. I could be quite happy using 7 1/2s for everything I shoot with the exception of ducks and geese. Clay bird games (including registered sporting), dove, quail, woodcock, snipe, flyers. When it was legal for ducks I killed a many a woodie and teal with 1 1/8 oz. of 7 1/2 lead. I just bought 10 flats of RIO 1 oz. 7 1/2s.
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