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<blockquote data-quote="HSmithTX" data-source="post: 2627381" data-attributes="member: 121677"><p>I used to hunt ducks and geese really hard, 45+ days per season, usually (almost always) used high or ultra velocity #2 steel. I was really fortunate that my job allowed me to come in at 10-11 am and work until I was done, so I could hunt basically every morning. I patterned everything, and ended up with a full choke. Yes, I absolutely lost pellets out of the pattern, 20-30% sometimes depending on the load. The upside was I gained 15-20 yards of killing distance, to me killing distance is where I can maintain 3-4 of the #2 on a duck at least 7 out of 10 patters and no one pattern could contain less than 2 hits. The choke I used was a standard Browning/Winchester Invector Plus, regular old flush mount and the choke was damaged fairly fast with scarring showing in maybe 100-150 rounds and the choke was badly damaged in 800-1000 shots and replaced. Scarred up internally, never bothered the threads or the barrel at all in probably 3500-4000 rounds. You had to be accurate but if you were it would slay. I couldn't afford the steel alternatives in the quantities needed at the time so I never investigated them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HSmithTX, post: 2627381, member: 121677"] I used to hunt ducks and geese really hard, 45+ days per season, usually (almost always) used high or ultra velocity #2 steel. I was really fortunate that my job allowed me to come in at 10-11 am and work until I was done, so I could hunt basically every morning. I patterned everything, and ended up with a full choke. Yes, I absolutely lost pellets out of the pattern, 20-30% sometimes depending on the load. The upside was I gained 15-20 yards of killing distance, to me killing distance is where I can maintain 3-4 of the #2 on a duck at least 7 out of 10 patters and no one pattern could contain less than 2 hits. The choke I used was a standard Browning/Winchester Invector Plus, regular old flush mount and the choke was damaged fairly fast with scarring showing in maybe 100-150 rounds and the choke was badly damaged in 800-1000 shots and replaced. Scarred up internally, never bothered the threads or the barrel at all in probably 3500-4000 rounds. You had to be accurate but if you were it would slay. I couldn't afford the steel alternatives in the quantities needed at the time so I never investigated them. [/QUOTE]
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