So hopefully I can get a clear under standing of shooting heads from the wisdom of this group.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Shooting heads -
T - represents tungsten
# - grains per foot

T-# also represents a fixed sink rate per ft.

Now, with my Sage XP 8wt 10', I typically throw a T-14 cut to 28' = 392 grains as advised by my last local shop.

That is the densest line head I currently have so if I wanted to fish higher in the water column I should be fishing T-12 or 10 at the same grain wt. Now if I was to weigh an I line head or floating head, again the head weight should be the same weight as what ever best loads the rod and that weight is determined by the line length multiplied by grains per ft.

Right?

Thanks folks, it's all very confusing to me. But not really just a bit of a mind f#$k some times.

Now.... I'm gonna weigh each of my heads, measure them, divide weight by length and figure out what the hell I've been beating my rotator cuff up with!

Let me know if I've got this straight. Please and thanks

J. Ice

By the way, writing this out helps my thought process.