re: Duck Shot Shells

Winchester Super X #2s, 1 1/8 oz, 1400 FPS. I use them for ALL waterfowl including geese. Also shoot crane with them when hunting waterfowl (you can shoot lead at cranes if you ain't also shooting geese). They will knock a Canada goose arse over tea kettle if it is decoying. If it ain't I ain't wasting a shell.

I use them because they are almost ALWAYS available and I am convinced that shooting the same load is as important as shooting the same gun and choke....the velocity and load are important in wing shooting and when you get accustomed to hitting with one load and one gun I don't see the point in changing it up for the sake of changing it up. I do not pass shoot. I will shoot birds that are working but not committed but I am not taking pop shots at birds that are at the edge of what I can kill without crippling. At 30 yards I have folded a BUNCH of big ducks with this load...as well as a bunch of geese. In my opinion most people are over loaded when they shoot ducks and geese and it leads to sky busting and taking high risk shots. I may be wrong but I know I don't shoot at a bird more than 35 yards away....