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What do you use!!
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06/21/14 07:46 PM
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Littlejr13
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Hey guys just curious in what shotgun shells you guys use for them ducks. I wanted to see what type, size, and load everyone else is successful with.. My favorite has been the winchester drylocks 3 1/2 inch 1 9/16 ounce load.
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/21/14 08:04 PM
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GTT
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Usually Kent Fast steel but if something is on sale/cheaper I will buy that.
3" #6 is it for me, I believe it is 1-1/8 oz.
I shoot a Beretta A300 Outlander, wood stock. I love that gun and have put down some ducks with it.
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/21/14 08:16 PM
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STXHO
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/21/14 10:10 PM
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Pittstate
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I shoot what ever is on sale or cheapest. I shoot my ducks at close range, so super performance is not an issue. When I go on conservation hunts with lots of shots, I shoot better shells....for performance and a little cleaner on the gun. 3" #4 seems to be shoot the best out of most of my shotguns.
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/21/14 11:13 PM
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BigAL33
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I don't often hunt ducks, but when I do, I use Hevi Shot, 28ga 3/4oz #6s 
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Re: What do you use!!
[Re: Littlejr13]
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06/21/14 11:31 PM
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Fooshman
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Whatever I can find cheap.
Winchester, Remington, Federal...
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/22/14 02:39 AM
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Fooshman
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/22/14 02:31 PM
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Pittstate
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I don't often hunt ducks, but when I do, I use Hevi Shot, 28ga 3/4oz #6s That is an awesome pic! Could have stepped it up a notch by adding a "Spoonie"
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/22/14 11:14 PM
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/23/14 12:51 AM
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I don't often hunt ducks, but when I do, I use Hevi Shot, 28ga 3/4oz #6s Awful lot of brown there...lol jk Ive always shot the cheap Winchester experts 1 1/8 #3. But this year I found a deal on some fiocchi steel shells, so for a while anyways ill be shooting those.
Arise.Kill.Eat -Acts 10:13 I have read a bunch of stuff on the internet about Star Wars but that does not mean I can skin a deer with a light saber.
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Re: What do you use!!
[Re: Littlejr13]
#5168451
06/23/14 01:00 AM
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maturner05
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Hevi-Metal #4�.without question the best duck shells I've used.
Is it duck season yet?
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/23/14 02:39 AM
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Windrider
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Steel 3s in 1 1/4 oz or 1 3/8 oz. Is a good all rounder for public water.
My favorite affordable round was the old hevisteel 4s through a Terror .675
Hevishot 6s for pass shooting.
1 to 1 1/8 oz of steel 4s hunting small ponds when you know the shots will be pretty short.
I started loading 1.25 oz of bismuth 4s at 1350fps a couple of years ago to shoot through my Dad's old A5. Wow! I love this load.
Thought for the day: Ducks were almost hunted to extinction long before camo was invented.
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Re: What do you use!!
[Re: Littlejr13]
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06/23/14 05:29 AM
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JakeJJ
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I like tealsteel all season for ducks. Geese I'll load up heavier but ducks, feet down over the decoys, tealsteel will fold em up hard.
We interrupt this marriage for hunting season.
USAF 07-Present OIF 09-10 OSS 14
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Re: What do you use!!
[Re: Littlejr13]
#5168806
06/23/14 11:45 AM
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texasdude28
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Federal 3" number 2 shot.
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/24/14 08:00 PM
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HOU Razorback
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Federal Steel (blue box) and Federal Premium HHV Steel (Red box). Both 3in #2
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Re: What do you use!!
[Re: Littlejr13]
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06/24/14 09:22 PM
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beaversnipe
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3 1/2 inch nr BB heavy shot over 12 yrd decoying duck.
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/24/14 09:37 PM
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Navasot
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Re: What do you use!!
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06/24/14 09:38 PM
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Navasot
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3 1/2 inch nr BB heavy shot over 12 yrd decoying duck.
Might be worth it to go to T
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Re: What do you use!!
[Re: Navasot]
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06/24/14 09:48 PM
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Ben Lilly
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