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That is definitely a stress free way to do it!

Theres about 100x the public hunting land in SD than NW IA. Theres almost 15x public land acres in SD than all of Iowa. (5 million in SD and 400K in Iowa). NW IA corner has about 50k acres, SD has 5 million. I think youll have less pressure in SD personally.

Doves are federally regulated to 3 shells in a plugged gun. Dont get caught.

See, that right there is what I am talking about. Its a simple concept in the mind, but patterning will show that it is not the case. Well i guess TECHNICALLY it is the case, but not practically. Between an IC and Mod we are talking MAYBE an extra inch of useable pattern diameter in the core. If...

That is because federal hulls are shorter than cheddites (kent), not that cheddites are long. Cheddites (kent) and fiocchi will be of "standard" length, with american being shorter. Dont know why rems would be longer than federal, they might have used a special hull for that load though. Saami...

In at least 3 threads where i told you to pattern your gun, and you reply with "maybe i will take a piece of cardboard out one of these days". There are new wads in factory shells as of the last 5 years.. 40 year old plastic is not the same as todays plastic, wad designs are not the same in...

100%. And if all else fails, find a local shooting coach. He/she will check gun fit, hold, swing, everything along with giving you tips at the range. Check local shooting clubs and see if they have a local coach they recommend. Some even have a package deal worked out with the club, where you...

Yesterday at a preserve i found several fresh empty hulls from the guys before us. 3" 1 1/4 and 3.5" 1 1/2 steel 2s. Mostly xpert. My dog found 3 dead pheasants that they lost and we had a crippled rooster running around ahead of us. The manager said the group got 11 birds, so they crippled/lost...

Most shells are using similar or the same wads these days. There's really only two 12g wads the major euro companies use for field loads, and then you have federal, win, and rem using their own. If one brand patterns good then likely all shells in that brand will be extremely similar. Jumping...

I dont see why you are so against patterning? Theres no point in reading articles about someones opinion 30-60 years ago. Shells are completely different these days. Just pattern your dang gun and see. When you see holes the size of a basketball, youll go tighter on the choke. I really dont see...

Search YouTube for Bob Mortimer stories. Those people are out there lol

The fired case length was 0.125" long? Not seen that before, but there are SAAMI shell length specs that most companies follow.

Was dumping mud behind some random guys barn with his daughter watching, when my cousin came running across the property on his snowmobile and shot that farmers cow. Just a prediction of a story we will hear shortly

Ive had some people tell me #10s will stop in the thighs and breast on a going away shot, and you dont want to try and pick out those... You cant even see the hole they make. Ive tried 1/4oz #10 tss 3/4oz #4 steel duplex but only at the patterning board, I was planning on using it for decoying...

I dont know about popularity of 2.75 vs 3" at the start, however heavy slow payloads are what Winchester and federal tried to do. They were loading 2.75" 1 1/4 and 3" 1 3/8 at 1200-1250fps and they just didnt work well. If you have a lymans 5th shotshell book, i believe there is a good article...

Hevi-steel is fantastic. I cant even begin to count how many ducks and geese I have killed with it. Its just normal steel shot, very similar load to kent fasteel- same wad. Dont think ive ever let one off at a pheasant though.

Because it was too slow. They tried to push it at lead shot velocity (1200-1300fps) and it simply doesnt perform well. Theres a few really good articles out there on the history of the first steel shells and why they were so infective. When kent came on the market with fasteel, that changed the...

Hevi-metal is now steel+bismuth and has been for several years. Hevi-metal xtreme is how the old stuff was with steel+tungsten, but its $65/box now.. it also uses the federal flight control wad.

Xpert is what you are thinking of, there isnt a round piece of shot in it and a #3 will have #6-bb in it. They are terrible. Now they are tricking consumers by calling them "superx xpert drylok" but its the same junk. The black box drylok is a great shell, it is the old Winchester supreme...

I dont have a graduated cylinder. None of the pellets are round or the same size, so i doubt they are all perfect #4 pellets. Just by eyeballing it, it looks like a half size swing either side or a full size range of shot. They might all be bigger than #4 as well, i dont know.. theres no way for...