re: What shells are everyone shooting..

Posted by batonrouger

baton rouge

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Posted on 9/14/11 at 6:26 pm to brhunt

kent/winchester

Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt

Here

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Posted on 9/14/11 at 7:40 pm to Tiger 79

I shoot kent 3" #1's. I either wanna miss or pile drive em.

Posted by Tino

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Posted on 9/14/11 at 7:53 pm to MSG

3.5 #2 Black Clouds

Posted by Uncle Brady

Tampa, FL

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Posted on 9/14/11 at 8:02 pm to MSG

Black Clouds 3" #3. The box with Phil Robertson on it.

Posted by Da Hammer

Folsom

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Posted on 9/14/11 at 8:53 pm to Uncle Brady

I have shot Kent 3" 1 1/8 oz. 3's for about 10 years now. They kill all the ducks I need to.

I have tired all the other new stuff and I haven't found it worth the extra cost, ESP black clouds, I am not sure there is a worse shell out there IMO.

If on a straight goose hunt, I have winchester high velocity 10 ga BB.

Posted by DrTyger

Covington

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Posted on 9/14/11 at 9:46 pm to MSG

Black Cloud isn't worth the money.

I usually go with Kent Fasteel or Xpert HiV

Posted by GetMoney11

Cenla

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Posted on 9/14/11 at 10:10 pm to DrTyger

BLIND SIDE, got em for a steal on midway usa.

shot a few at some clays, turned em into dust...black clouds broke the clays up nothing like the blind side. Cant wait to bust some feathers with em

Posted by TigerDeacon

West Monroe, LA

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Posted on 9/14/11 at 11:02 pm to Da Hammer

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ESP black clouds, I am not sure there is a worse shell out there IMO.

If on a straight goose hunt, I have winchester high velocity 10 ga BB.

I bought some last year and it just seemed like I couldn't kill a duck with them. Went back to the old Estate steel and started knocking them down.

Posted by BLIZZAKE7

BRLA

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Posted on 9/14/11 at 11:14 pm to GetMoney11

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BLIND SIDE

i want to try these this season

Posted by Nascar Fan

Columbia La.

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Posted on 9/15/11 at 12:05 am to MSG

Buy what's on sale. 3" & 3 1/2" BB

Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt

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Posted on 9/15/11 at 7:28 am to batonrouger

I will say the only thing I don't like to shoot is winchester xpert steel. We cut open an xpert, black cloud, kent, and a drylock. Xperts look like they're full of welding slag. All the rest had uniform round pellets. The kent and drylock looked like virtually the same shell on the inside.

Posted by Tigah D

Baton Rouge

Member since Jul 2008

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Posted on 9/15/11 at 7:00 pm to mylsuhat

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The cheapest 3" #2 shot they got. I dont have to shoot supersonicultraspeedtungstentitanium at dem ducks to hit em.

thats why I shoot Xpert. ~$9/box at walmarks

Agreed. Gun: $1,300 but i'll shoot the cheapest stuff I can find bc it still kills ducks. yes Xpert can appear to be welding slag if cut open, I've gone through enough cases of it and killed hundreds of ducks with it to know it doesn't matter when shooting birds at reasonable ranges. As for Black Cloud and Blind Side: from a ballistics/"punch"/knockdown power perspective, it's still ordinary steel, no matter what silly shape they want to put it in. I've found pieces of the "razor edge" black cloud pellets in birds and believe me it was far from sharp on the edges. I buy my shells in the offseason from www.rogerssportinggoods.com and don't pay tax or shipping. Keep an eye out for deals there, no matter what shells you prefer. Getting fancy with shells is great and all if you hunt a couple days a season but when you hunt 4-5 days a week it gets expensive.