Nitro vs apex

[bigbird]

Anyone have any good or bad with them? I personally like the apex. I shoot 20 gauge 7.5's and they do great. I'm curious though how nitro shells are. What's your opinion or experience with the nitro ammo?

[Cottonmouth]

I shot Nitro hevi shot for years and killed a ton of birds with them. I tried the Nitro tss and it's way too tight for me. I am shooting Browning tss 7x9 now and couldn't be happier. Ive never tried Apex, but i have a co worker that loves them.
Tss really leveled the playing field against Nitro, not sure if their price can compete anymore.

[Greg Massey]

Agree , I've always heard people who use Nitro , really like it , but it was just out of my price range. Federal HW and now Apex for me in the 20 ga. and 410

[Deafman]

Ive used Nitro 4x5x7 Hevishot in my 12 gauge and loved it. I'm now using Apex GT20 in the 20 gauge and love it too. I do prefer the roll crimp that Apex uses over the fold crimp of the Nitros.

[zelmo1]

Apex was terribly inconsistent and their customer service was horrible. The Browning TSS is surprisingly good. I set up to reload 20/28 now.

[Greg Massey]

You know , i don't reload TSS , but i will support Apex , reason why veteran own. Just my opinion.

[Dtrkyman]

I have seen some really poor loads from nitro, crimps coming apart, leaking buffer all over the place some guys with inconsistent patterns.

The patterns I did not see but the junk crimps and rounds falling apart I have.

[WV Flopper]

 Pattern wise... the only apples to apples I have compared is in the 410. I did not count the BB's in a 10" circle, but to look at it the nitro had less holes in the pattern at 40 yrds. Not what I am used to out of a 40 yrd pattern, so I wasn't impressed with either out of the 410. More testing in the off season is needed.
I have shot nitros for probably 10 years now. The only fault"s" I can find in them is the price and the crimp. I would prefer a roll crimp to contain the buffer!
When I order shells for the 10g and my boys 20g its at 600$, I don't walk around shooting crows like I did when I was a kid!

I hunt with a 10g, the pattern out of it with 8/9 TSS is awesome for sure.

[dzsmith]

shot nitro 457s for a couple years back in the day. same issues as others have mentioned. the star crimp wouldn't hold the buffer, I always had to seal the shells up myself. Had some buffer cause a shell to hang up in the tube once......My 870 actually patterned as good with longbeard 6s as it did with the 457s so I shot longbeards for several years after shooting nitros. Ive shot apex 9s for 2 years . Inconsistent with the patterning, but still better than what I had been shooting. Ive acquired all I need to reload for next season....so going forward ill be doing my own.