Right!! SO, if you have 2 oz of lead #5 and 2 oz of Heavyweight #5, there'll be fewer pellets in the Heavyweight, so "going up" in shot size, to #7 Heavyweight, gets you something like the same # (probably more) of pellets in 2 oz of #7 Heavyweight as you'd get with 2 oz of #5 lead, for example.

So then the question is, is it better to have 500 (or 400 or 300 or 200--whatever your gun patterns) pellets of #7 Heavyweight hit a 30 " circle at 40 yards, or 350 (or 250 or 150--again, whatever your gun patterns) pellets of #5 Heavyweight? While I understand the #7 carries penetrating power that is 1.5 times lead, the same is true of the #5 Heavyweight pellet, it has 1.5 times the penetration power of a #5 lead pellet (and a #5 Heavyweight pellet probably has more than 2 times the penetration power of a #7 Heavyweight pellet or some such, as a #5 pellet is bigger than a #7 pellet) and I don't think I need 350#5 Heavyweight hits to kill a turkey.

Wow!!! As I think of it, I'm really confused!! Should I shoot # 5 Heavyweight or # 7 Heavyweight this spring?? Help!!!!!