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What do you use!! #5166768 06/21/14 07:46 PM
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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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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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Kent 3in #2

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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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I don't often hunt ducks, but when I do, I use Hevi Shot, 28ga 3/4oz #6s


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Whatever I can find cheap.

Winchester, Remington, Federal...


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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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Kent 3" 1560fps #4


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Originally Posted By: BigAL33
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.


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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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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.


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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.


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Federal 3" number 2 shot.

Re: What do you use!! [Re: Littlejr13] #5171275 06/24/14 08:00 PM
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Federal Steel (blue box) and Federal Premium HHV Steel (Red box). Both 3in #2



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3 1/2 inch nr BB heavy shot over 12 yrd decoying duck.


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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

Re: What do you use!! [Re: Navasot] #5171434 06/24/14 09:48 PM
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I like these

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I like these

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