I have not been impressed with the 1600fps Hornady stuff. Not only does it tend to pattern... mediocrely, I've had it exhibit a fair amount of sticking in otherwise good-to-go chambers.
Matt Haught
SYMTAC Consulting LLC
https://sym-tac.com
Hornady's specs are showing 985fps from an 18" barrel and 1100fps out of a 30" barrel for the TAP Reduced Recoil. I bought a batch about a year ago, and while it patterned just a little looser than FC in most of my guns, it was horrible out of my 1301 using both Cyl. and IC choke...to the point it almost wouldn't keep all 8 pellets on an IDPA target at @ 15 yds.
The recoil was comically low...the first couple of rounds, I had to check that they weren't squibs.
https://www.hornadyle.com/shotgun-am...uced-recoil#!/
Fisher's posting on social media that he contacted two sources at Federal who said LE13300 is not going away, and that the CS rep gave incorrect information that started this concern.
Matt Haught
SYMTAC Consulting LLC
https://sym-tac.com
I've seen enough that I'm pretty sure now this was a false alarm.
Good thing.
Losing 8 pellet and Raquel Welch in the same day really sucked.
3/15/2016
We can hang out.
And just as a total aside...I don't understand from a bean counter perspective why they don't discontinue the nine pellet variant.
From a purely production standpoint that just makes sense. Removing a pellet from the 9-pellet forms means after every 8-rounds of 9-pellet you produce, you have the pellets to make an additional 8-pellet round. Are plated pellets cheaper than grex? The fact that the 8-pellet patterns better and more consistently in most guns and the production savings...it just...doesn't make sense to me.
I ASSume it is entirely historical inertia that maintains the 9-pellet variant over the 8-pellet variant as the top seller. I get from that perspective that you aren't discontinuing your biggest seller.