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I own a 3" gun (pictured) in which I have never fired a 3" shell. Don't see the need for them, not even for waterfowl. I load 1 1/8oz. ITX/Nice Shot/Bismuth to 1250fps out of AA target hulls, and knock geese ass-over-tin cups. The major flyways were decimated 100+ years ago by market gunners shooting an ounce of lead. I doubt the birds have developed Kevlar feathers since then.





My hunting buddies gave up on their 3" and 3½" cannons and switched to "light" 2 3/4" lead-like non-toxic loads too, and found their scores to have gone up in the process. A couple of those guys had developed flinches so bad from shooting their magnums that they couldn't hit a thing.