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Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. #5475562 12/14/14 03:13 PM
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What load do you guys like to use for ducks when you break out the 20?

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. [Re: Arbor Guy] #5475592 12/14/14 03:27 PM
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With a few less pellets to bring down the birds, this is when I actually do spend more money on shells. We have been using Heavy Metals with pretty good results (use the Carlson Heavy Metal Choke tube as well). You can get away with less expensive shells for sure. If I weren't hunting with my daughter, I would be using the cheapest I could find.

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. [Re: Arbor Guy] #5476033 12/14/14 08:26 PM
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I have been shooting heavy metal #4s

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. [Re: Arbor Guy] #5476058 12/14/14 08:41 PM
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Winchester makes those blind side shells. They range from 2 shot to 5 shot. They are 24 a box though. Found some regular winchester 4 shot I think at Wal mart for around 13$ a box 3 inch shells for both the blind side and the high velocity

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. [Re: Arbor Guy] #5476207 12/14/14 09:41 PM
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Ive been having good luck with SuperX 2 3/4" #6

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. [Re: Ben Lilly] #5477347 12/15/14 03:45 AM
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Originally Posted By: Ben Lilly
Ive been having good luck with SuperX 2 3/4" #6


Son has been shooting the same along with some supremes in #3's. Coach

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. [Re: Arbor Guy] #5477399 12/15/14 03:53 AM
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Kent 3" #4's. Patterns well out of my 870, and the Fiancé's SX3. Even at 7/8oz, it's 1550fps.



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My daughter shoot the 3" remington hypersonics in number 3 to 4.


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Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. [Re: Arbor Guy] #5479406 12/15/14 11:51 PM
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One ounce of tungsten 6s for ducks and one ounce of 4s for geese.

Now, if it's a kid who doesn't shoot very well... One ounce of steel 4s for ducks.


Thought for the day: Ducks were almost hunted to extinction long before camo was invented.
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