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What shotgun shells do you shoot?

Posted on 8/20/14 at 12:24 pm
Posted by Red4
Lafayette
Member since Oct 2008
222 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 12:24 pm
Normally I shoot Estate 3" 1 3/8oz #2's and #4's.

I am looking at some Rio Royal Bluesteel that a friend I know can get at wholesale.

Anyone have any experience with them? Opinions?
Posted by mack the knife
EBR
Member since Oct 2012
4208 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 12:26 pm to
Rio has been marginally ok for me. not great, but all rounds do go "bang" in some fashion, just not as consistently as other brands.
Posted by PolyPusher86
St. George
Member since Jun 2010
3357 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 12:30 pm to
Winchester xpert 3" 1 1/4 oz #2
$110 a case
Rio's are great shells, ran quite a few cases thru my beretta with zero malfunctions, I quit using due to increase in price
Posted by mack the knife
EBR
Member since Oct 2012
4208 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 12:30 pm to
hijack warning: bps has/had 100 count boxes on sale this am for $20. so i go over there to pick up 12 ga for me and 20 ga for mack jr #1. the shelf advertisement said limit 2 per customer. some goofy 50+ yr old guy dressed up in full boy scout uniform bought ALL the 12 gauge they had right as i'm walking in. i'm looking at the cashier like "wtf?" and she tells me that bps gives the boy scout's some sort of break.
Posted by Croacka
Denham Springs
Member since Dec 2008
61447 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 12:31 pm to
Federal Blue box
Posted by TexasTiger01
Lake Houston
Member since Nov 2013
3215 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 12:33 pm to
Da red ones
Posted by mylsuhat
Mandeville, LA
Member since Mar 2008
49008 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 12:37 pm to
Winchester Xpert 3" #3

This post was edited on 8/20/14 at 12:39 pm
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
16502 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 12:38 pm to
3" number 4 buck.

Or this a waterfowl only thread?
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
38974 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 1:00 pm to
I've gotten to where I shoot Expert 3.5" 1 3/8 #2's during big duck season almost exclusively.
Posted by Palo Gaucho
Benton
Member since Jul 2013
3342 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 1:22 pm to
Federal Blue Box
Posted by 007mag
Death Valley, Sec. 408
Member since Dec 2011
3877 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 2:26 pm to
Kent Fasteel 3" #3 and/or Black Cloud 3" #3
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45924 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 2:33 pm to
I shoot RST in my older guns, cheap shells in my newer guns...
Posted by Jenar Boy
Elsewhere
Member since Aug 2013
12708 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 3:27 pm to
Throw me in with the Federal blue box too
Posted by Boats n Hose
NOLA
Member since Apr 2011
37248 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 3:33 pm to
Whatever's cheapest. 3" #4 or #2 I think.
This post was edited on 8/20/14 at 3:36 pm
Posted by KingRanch
The Ranch
Member since Mar 2012
61640 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 3:36 pm to
For what game?
Posted by Speck
Dirty South
Member since Aug 2014
349 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 4:18 pm to
Federal 3.5 in fields, 3" in the timber
Posted by CroakaBait
Gulf Coast of the Land Mass
Member since Nov 2013
3988 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 6:37 pm to
Anything double ought, but then again, it's a Winchester Riot.
Posted by DrTyger
Covington
Member since Oct 2009
22325 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:22 pm to
Kent #4 or #2
Posted by dawg23
Baton Rouge, La
Member since Jul 2011
5065 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 9:40 pm to
quote:

Anyone have any experience with them? Opinions?

Never shot Rio steel, but shoot ~ 50 cases of Rio target loads every year (sporting clay, trap, skeet).

They are some of the cleanest (and cheapest) shells I've ever used.
Posted by nelatf
NELA
Member since Jan 2011
2296 posts
Posted on 8/20/14 at 10:41 pm to

Estate 3 or 3.5 inch
1 3/8
BB

In fact, most of our blind uses that - knocks em down every time.
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