hevi shot vs. lead shot
01-06-2008, 08:06 AM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Calif
Posts: 1,894
RE: hevi shot vs. lead shot
Shot lead for almost 30 years using my own handloads.The beards on my wall tell me I dont need to go trying to fix something that aint broke.Its all about knowin your pattern at lethal ranges.To me you cant improve on dead under 45 yards,thats my personal limit as far as range is concerned.Very nice to see many here doing what they can to make clean kills....
01-07-2008, 08:12 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Waipahu HI USA
Posts: 2,915
RE: hevi shot vs. lead shot
I shot my first turkley with a 2.75" Win. Supreme #4. You couldn't have made him any dead-er. After 3 with hevi-shot, I'm now like many others...won't go back to lead, if I can help it.
01-08-2008, 05:52 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NewLowell ,Ontario ,Canada
Posts: 2,765
RE: hevi shot vs. lead shot
ORIGINAL: Bobgobble2
Shot lead for almost 30 years using my own handloads.The beards on my wall tell me I dont need to go trying to fix something that aint broke.Its all about knowin your pattern at lethal ranges.To me you cant improve on dead under 45 yards,thats my personal limit as far as range is concerned.Very nice to see many here doing what they can to make clean kills....
Shot lead for almost 30 years using my own handloads.The beards on my wall tell me I dont need to go trying to fix something that aint broke.Its all about knowin your pattern at lethal ranges.To me you cant improve on dead under 45 yards,thats my personal limit as far as range is concerned.Very nice to see many here doing what they can to make clean kills....
[8D]
01-09-2008, 08:14 AM
#24
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Calif
Posts: 1,894
RE: hevi shot vs. lead shot
ORIGINAL: Adrian J Hare
Man your just like that jalvja, you Old uns just can't see better in the future [8D]
ORIGINAL: Bobgobble2
Shot lead for almost 30 years using my own handloads.The beards on my wall tell me I dont need to go trying to fix something that aint broke.Its all about knowin your pattern at lethal ranges.To me you cant improve on dead under 45 yards,thats my personal limit as far as range is concerned.Very nice to see many here doing what they can to make clean kills....
Shot lead for almost 30 years using my own handloads.The beards on my wall tell me I dont need to go trying to fix something that aint broke.Its all about knowin your pattern at lethal ranges.To me you cant improve on dead under 45 yards,thats my personal limit as far as range is concerned.Very nice to see many here doing what they can to make clean kills....
[8D]
09-09-2017, 02:39 PM
#27
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 17
turkey season. I was fortunate to take a huge TOM at
63 yards. I am amazed at how good the Blends perform
No more lead for me
03-09-2018, 11:34 AM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SW Michigan
Posts: 1,906
Carlson's Longbeard XR choke with Winchester Longbeard XR, for me, is deadly. I shoot an Ithaca 12ga, 3" #6 shot. Dropped a nice gobbler last year at ~55 steps in an open field, he didn't twitch. The year before I took a bird under 15 steps that literally produced a jellyhead...
The Longbeard XR greatly outperforms anything else I've shot, and is vastly superior to lead. My son's 20ga Weatherby is setup with the Hevi-shot choke for the Hevi-shot Magnum blend, but this year we're trying the 20ga Longbeard XR (choke and #6 ammo), which we just couldn't get before it sold out last year...
The Longbeard XR greatly outperforms anything else I've shot, and is vastly superior to lead. My son's 20ga Weatherby is setup with the Hevi-shot choke for the Hevi-shot Magnum blend, but this year we're trying the 20ga Longbeard XR (choke and #6 ammo), which we just couldn't get before it sold out last year...
