Federal Steel has never really impressed me.

As I wrote on another thread, I'm going to be doing a Field Journal here on HNI about some of the new non-tox stuff.

I have a box of the #4 black cloud. Couldn't find #2s like I wanted, and I figured that if they stuff isn't any good, I can use #4s to shoot cripples on the water... the only other offering was BBs, and I almost got those as I was goose hunting that afternoon... but I don't want to hunt with an unproven load.

As it was, I ended up using my normal #6s hevi shot backed up by Win Supreme BBs. All 3" loads. Dumped my limit of 5 in no time and helped out on two cripples. I was very impressed with the Win Supreme BBs, they flat hammered those residents out to 45 yards. I killed two birds dead in the air that landed close to 70 yards away... both I shot with BBs, not the hevi. Very impressed. I was using my old 870 Wingmaster Mag and I Briley Extended Mod choke.

I'll post up when the article is done on the non-tox. I'm hitting the range tomorrow.