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What are your favorite shells and why? And I'm sure most of us wish we could still shoot lead.....

I need to buy a couple of cases and looking for what you guys have had the best success with.

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Federal blue box for me, buy then from Rogers sporting goods, they ship for free. I did buy a case of Hevi-Metal this year when Environmetal was running a $50/case rebate.

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Federal blue box or Estate steel for ducks.


Hevi metal or Hevi shot for Geese


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Kent Fasteel here

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Kent faststeel and federal blue box, like them equally well. For woodies and big ducks 3" #3s or 2 3/4 #4s if I'm shooting teal and woodies.

They pattern well in all of my guns, they are affordable and they do the job.


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I'll have to get some of both and try them.

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As others mentioned, Federal blue box and Kent Fasteel. These are my main loads which handle 90% of my needs. The other bit is long range work where I have found Winchester Supreme to be the best for me.

in 12 ga, 3" 1 1/4 oz loads is my preference with #2 for ducks and #BBB for geese. If big Honkers aren't on the menu, BB is the usuale goose load.

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A friend of mine also reports very few ducks in Arkansas. This seems to happen every few years. They usually show up by the first week in January. We certainly need some cold weather in the upper mid-west.

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Old Drylok's (been using from a case of BB's for years).

What I buy today: Kent Fasteel, Estate HV Mag steel, Federal blue box.


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I've got a hunt set up with Antonio Jones the last part of January. Hopefully the ducks show up by then.

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Others have mentioned supreme and dryloks. I too like them but the price keeps me buying the others.


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Remington Nitro Steel, $70 a case after rebate, cheaper is better


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I've been running Fiocchis lately. They burn clean and seem to pattern well out of my SBEII. Kent Fasteel pattern well too, especially out of a Patternmaster for me. Fed Blue box don't function well at all in my gun. I swore off Dry-Loks after I cut one open. I also found that BlackCloud tears up the birds too much for my liking. They are quite deadly however.


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I like the Black Cloud shells. They pattern very well in my BPS. Found out the hard way though that you do have to let the bird get farther away than usual as they are deadly. The Close Range BC loads are better at shorter ranges.

Has anyone tried the Kent Teal Steel loads yet. I just picked up a couple boxes to try next season.

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Troutfly, in my opinion the teal steel isn't that great. Locally it was priced higher than faststeel. Pick up some faststeel in your favorite shot charge loaded with 4's and you pretty well have it beat. Particularly here in Canada where there are no teal only seasons that I am aware of. I like 2 3/4" 1-1/8 ounce loads for 90% of my waterfowling, even geese.

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I have seen more misfires from remington this year, in a single year than all other brands combined in all the years I've hunted.


Most of them have been from the Hypersonic shells, but I've seen a good share of them from the remington sportsman steel line


I've seen enough to not use remington period


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I saw the same from hevi steel a few years ago. I had one in 5 to not fire. My buddy Taver had the same thing happen from a different lot. Over priced junk.


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Hiv shot admitted to a bad run of all there stuff a few years ago and I believe refunded everyone that had the bad lots.

I haven't had any issues with hevi metal


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I shoot a Browning Silver Hunter and I'll need to get a new choke. You guys seem pretty fond of patternmaster. Anything else I should look into?

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