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Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters.

Posted By: Arbor Guy

Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. - 12/14/14 03:13 PM

What load do you guys like to use for ducks when you break out the 20?
Posted By: Pittstate

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. - 12/14/14 03:27 PM

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.
Posted By: duckiller

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. - 12/14/14 08:26 PM

I have been shooting heavy metal #4s
Posted By: pervis

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. - 12/14/14 08:41 PM

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
Posted By: Ben Lilly

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. - 12/14/14 09:41 PM

Ive been having good luck with SuperX 2 3/4" #6
Posted By: coachmas

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. - 12/15/14 03:45 AM

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
Posted By: Going Green

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. - 12/15/14 03:53 AM

Kent 3" #4's. Patterns well out of my 870, and the Fiancé's SX3. Even at 7/8oz, it's 1550fps.
Posted By: TurkeyHunter

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. - 12/15/14 08:12 PM

My daughter shoot the 3" remington hypersonics in number 3 to 4.
Posted By: Windrider

Re: Favorite shell for you 20 Gauge duck hunters. - 12/15/14 11:51 PM

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.
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