B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot – Great 250 Case

Description

Shooting a 410 well is the hardest thing in clay target sports, and the ammunition has to do its part. The B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot is a dedicated competition load rather than a repackaged field shell. Half an ounce of shot at 1210 feet per second in a 2 1/2 inch hull, bought 250 rounds at a time because that is how a skeet season actually goes.

• Half an ounce is not much margin
• Full specifications
• Why buy a case rather than a box
• Honest notes before you buy
• 7.5 or 8 in a 410
• The bottom line

Half an ounce is not much margin

A 410 carries about a third of what a 12 gauge does. That means roughly 175 pellets of 7.5 in the payload, and every one of them has to be in the pattern when the target arrives. There is no spare capacity to cover a sloppy pattern, which is why a purpose built load like the B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot matters more here than in a bigger gauge.

B&P uses pre cut wads in this line specifically to tighten and stabilize the pattern. In a gauge with this little shot, the difference between a pattern that holds together and one that does not is the difference between breaking the target and chipping it. The B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot is built around that problem.

Full specifications

• Caliber: 410 bore, 2 1/2 inch shell
• Bullet weight: 1/2 ounce of lead, 7.5 shot grain
• Bullet: 7.5 shot target load
• Muzzle velocity: 1210 fps
• Muzzle energy: not published for shotshells ft-lbs
• Ballistic coefficient (G1): not applicable to shotshells
• Case: reloadable boxer primed brass
• Quantity: 20 rounds per box
• Part number: 410BCP75, 250 round case of ten 25 round boxes

The 2 1/2 inch length is the standard for 410 target shooting and it is what skeet guns are built around. Three inch 410 shells exist and hold more shot, but they are hunting shells and many target guns will not cycle them well. The B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot is the right length for the discipline.

Why buy a case rather than a box

Skeet in 410 is a 100 target event, which is four boxes before you have shot a single practice round. Anyone competing seriously goes through a case in short order. Buying the B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot 250 at a time is simply how the maths works out, and it costs less per round than boxes do.

Lot consistency is the other reason. A single case of the B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot is one lot number, which means the pattern and the point of impact stay the same across an entire season. Mixing lots mid competition is how people find themselves chasing a problem that is not in their shooting.

Honest notes before you buy

Recoil is essentially a non issue. Half an ounce at 1210 feet per second out of a target gun is gentle enough that a full case in a weekend does not wear on you. That is part of why 410 is such a good gauge for teaching, even though it is the hardest one to score well with.

One thing to be clear about. This is a target load, not a hunting load, and B&P sells a separate Heavy Dove and Quail line in the same gauge and shot size for that. They look similar on a shelf and they are built for different jobs. If you are chasing birds rather than clays, buy that one instead of the B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot.

7.5 or 8 in a 410

B&P offers this load in both sizes and the choice is genuinely debated. Number 8 gives you roughly thirty more pellets in the same half ounce, which fills the pattern. Number 7.5 in the B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot carries more energy per pellet, which breaks targets more decisively at the longer skeet and sporting presentations.

Most 410 skeet shooters end up preferring 8 for the close stations and 7.5 for anything with distance on it. If you shoot sporting clays with a 410, where the targets can be much further out, the B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot is usually the better default of the two.

The bottom line

For 410 skeet and sporting clays, the B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot is a proper competition shell bought in the quantity the discipline actually consumes. You can read more about the bullet design at swiftbullets.com, or browse the rest of our stock on the MAG5 Firearms ammunition page.

MAG5 Firearms keeps the B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot in stock and moving, and we are glad to talk through bullet choice before you order. If you are working up a load for a new rifle, a single box of the B&P Competition One 410 1/2oz 7.5 Shot is a sensible place to start.