Heading to OK to go goose hunting next week. What shells to buy?

3" BB 1550 fps federal

Kills cranes and geese just fine

Ah, yeah, pellet weight differences. Great advice.

3” BB if all you’re hunting is geese. Nothing wrong with 2s though. I like to hunt with 2s if I know there will be ducks and geese. You can’t go wrong with either one, BB will just give you a bit more of an edge at distance.

If you’re shooting them in the head it generally won’t matter how big the shot is.


ETA: Also, I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure Hevi Steel is just hevi-shot branded steel with a little higher velocity. Nothing heavier about it except the velocity and the price tag.

You gonna work your butt to put out decoys. But there are a lot of geese in Ok. And at times the ducks are right there with the geese.

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I've never been goose hunting and the one who goose hunts all the time is the one saying is isn't sure what he buys

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I wish you the best but I question anyone that is clueless to what shells they use pretty fricking hard.

Personally I'd buy a couple of different boxes, its probably not going to make a huge difference either way but why risk it?

Any reason you are only using 3"? I've used 3.5" T and BBB on Canadians in the midwest and there were days the bigger birds seemed to shrug those off. Given you get birds set in the deeks you can kill them with 2 3/4" 4's. So like I said, it really depends but I would go prepared and I know shells are expensive.

You question why someone who has never hunted geese before and is going for the first time is questioning what shells? I’ve asked around and was given mixed results so wanted to ask the OB.

And 3” because that’s all my gold hunter and SX4 can handle.

The 2’s will fold decoying geese.

You’ll be shooting dinks mostly.

3” #2 or even #4 steel. No need to overthink your shell selection. You can melt them with 5 shot if they’re in the decoys. Kent fast steel 2.0 is a great choice that’s not crazy expensive.

I personally shoot 3” #2 steel and I hunt everything from cranes to cacklers from September to end of January.

Only time I really switch up is if we’re on a bunch of cacklers, I’ll drop to 4 or 5 shot just for more pellets same for when we start with spring snows.

If money does not matter Heavy X11 or I call X2 in 4 shot is the deadliest if want 2 shot go for it we kill Specs with 6 shot and it crushes them.