TSS any good?

KEOutdoors said:
Im shooting 3/4oz 9s at 1490fps. No shot in birds yet, although all close shots. Im shooting skeet and LM chokes, which is a 30 and 35yd setup in my gun. If I go LM/IM its 35yd 50yd+ (it has adequate penetration to about 80yd). Im not going to shoot a pheasant that far, but i guess its there if I ever need it. I shoot it because i am tired of finding lead in my birds. I am loading my own and right at $2/shot. At 300 pellets, its a dead bird every single time the pattern connects.

Attached patterns from stoeger condor 20ga 'beater' gun. Each circle is 30".
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I do a steel/tss duplex and my cost is $1.25 per shell...and I still hate missing! Maybe next year I'll try a few pure tss loads.
 
mutthunt said:
I do a steel/tss duplex and my cost is $1.25 per shell...and I still hate missing! Maybe next year I'll try a few pure tss loads.
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Just be aware it patterns extremely tight. The stoeger shoots terrible patterns which is why i have to shoot LM over SK. In my Beretta i shoot cylinder choke out to 35yds. Its actually kind of a bad thing, it means i can't mix and match shells (a lead shell then a tss) because the choking is so different. Modified is a 20" pattern at 30 yards, zero chance the bird would be edible.
 
KEOutdoors said:
Just be aware it patterns extremely tight. The stoeger shoots terrible patterns which is why i have to shoot LM over SK. In my Beretta i shoot cylinder choke out to 35yds. Its actually kind of a bad thing, it means i can't mix and match shells (a lead shell then a tss) because the choking is so different. Modified is a 20" pattern at 30 yards, zero chance the bird would be edible.
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I hear ya. I had to order a cylinder choke and I use that with IC and i'm stoning birds at 40 yards with the duplex load.
 
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