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I have two boxes of BBs left from a conservation goose hunt last year. I’m just wondering if anyone has used them on woodies or mallards. I know they bring them down quite nicely, bit I’m wondering if the pattern is dense enough for ducks.
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I use them and like the results. Folds up mallards hard. A bit overkill for Woodies, IMO.
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If you are on target, everything works. If you ain't, they won't work.
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Overkill on Woodies, IMO.
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Overkill on Woodies, IMO. Agreed. Woodies are not hard to kill. I think these pictured were killed with steel 4s, if I remember correctly. I do like BBs for late season mallards, as I posted above, and also because goose season is still on here.
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Shoot em if ya got em.
May not give much density if ranges start to get long but entry good for closer work.
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Overkill on Woodies, IMO. Agreed. Woodies are not hard to kill. I think these pictured were killed with steel 4s, if I remember correctly. I do like BBs for late season mallards, as I posted above, and also because goose season is still on here. Got yourself a band on one if those drakes. I took a drake Wood Duck with a band back in 2014. It was banded in Kentucky and I killed the bird in SE Arkansas.
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I can't remember exactly but I think that one wasn't banded too far away.
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They’ll do the job. I kill a lot of mallards on field goose hunts with them. They fold hard. Little big for wood ducks, as said above, but they’ll work fine. If you’re close just shoot a more open choke.
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