Have followed the thread intermittently, may have read it all.. or not, did not go back and re-read it in any case. As to the single pellet break scenario, the item not being mentioned here is the rotational speed of the clay target and its 'brittleness' for lack of a better word at the moment. Both are important factors for broken targets. I think most clay target shooters have seen a 'delayed' separation occur on occasion and I am of the opinion that those delayed breaks represent a pellet fractured target, one that may have been hit by a single pellet and was still spinning fast enough to come apart before hitting the ground. I've seen it much more often on skeet fields than anywhere else, but I've witnessed it happening in other games as well. It is also the reason that NSSA Referees are taught to watch every target until it makes contact w/the ground before it is called 'lost'. I've witnessed some that did not 'break' until they were 6" off the ground.
Just thot to round out the thread drift on single pellet breaks. Much better to shoot clays as Shotgun and the other Mr. Jones recommends, well centered and w/full confidence.
