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<blockquote data-quote="Orange Dust" data-source="post: 1596071" data-attributes="member: 92702"><p>In handloads there are several options depending on what you want to do:</p><p>1) Hevishot. Use 3-1/2" Federal hull, #2 Alliant steel powder, TPS wad, 1-7/8oz shot, mica dust on wads and 15grs buffer, with a mylar shot wrap. 1290fps. Gets decent patterns at 100yds with about 3' of drop you have to account for. Use a Briley unvented extended choke Improved Modified. Downside, Hevishot has very long shotstrings due to very uneven pellets. This is a good thing out to about 70 yards. Will kill Canadas over 100, but they have to be going straight away. Cripples badly over 70 yards due to this. Load data from Ballistics products. Their book shows this to be actually a turkey load with smaller shot, but it is a proven killer on geese with 2's. Do not use larger shot. Cripples badly at long range.</p><p>3) ITX shot. Load data also available from Ballistic products. Very uniform pellets fly like steel. I use ITX original 10 in BB and BBB in 10 ga. Cost effective to ITX 13 and Hevishot. The 10gm/cc will out perform 12 gm/cc Hevishot on long crossing shots. The 13 gm/cc is off the chart and largest available is #2's, which they are always out of.</p><p>4) Factory loaded HeviX is the most cost effective factory load out there. Pattern both 3 and 3-1/2" in your gun with the Briley choke. The 3" may outshoot the 3-1/2". Not as good as handloads</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orange Dust, post: 1596071, member: 92702"] In handloads there are several options depending on what you want to do: 1) Hevishot. Use 3-1/2" Federal hull, #2 Alliant steel powder, TPS wad, 1-7/8oz shot, mica dust on wads and 15grs buffer, with a mylar shot wrap. 1290fps. Gets decent patterns at 100yds with about 3' of drop you have to account for. Use a Briley unvented extended choke Improved Modified. Downside, Hevishot has very long shotstrings due to very uneven pellets. This is a good thing out to about 70 yards. Will kill Canadas over 100, but they have to be going straight away. Cripples badly over 70 yards due to this. Load data from Ballistics products. Their book shows this to be actually a turkey load with smaller shot, but it is a proven killer on geese with 2's. Do not use larger shot. Cripples badly at long range. 3) ITX shot. Load data also available from Ballistic products. Very uniform pellets fly like steel. I use ITX original 10 in BB and BBB in 10 ga. Cost effective to ITX 13 and Hevishot. The 10gm/cc will out perform 12 gm/cc Hevishot on long crossing shots. The 13 gm/cc is off the chart and largest available is #2's, which they are always out of. 4) Factory loaded HeviX is the most cost effective factory load out there. Pattern both 3 and 3-1/2" in your gun with the Briley choke. The 3" may outshoot the 3-1/2". Not as good as handloads [/QUOTE]
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