ORIGINAL: mouthcaller
Strut Stopper
"Oh brother let's go down, let's go down come on down, Oh brother let's go down, down to the Hevishot load".
In the immortal words of Delbert in Oh Brother Where Art Thou, "ThatNitro preacher done washed away all my sins from usin' them lead turkey loads".
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I promise you won't regret it. I have an 835 with the ported 24" barrel. It shot lead "OK" with a StarDot .676 choke but the difference between the Nitros (or Hevi-13 for that matter) and lead was like night and day. My forty yard Nitro pattern (see page 1 of this thread) looks like a lead pattern shot from 20 yards.
But don't just take my word for it - see for yourself. Prepare to be amazed.
mouthcaller - I saw the light! I was holding my target up and the light was shining thru all of those little hevi-13 holes! In fairness, I hadn't tried any 3.5" shells in lead, but the best I could do at 40 yards was 68 pellets in a 10" circle. 3" hevi-13s put 102 pellets in the same sized circle. 3.5" Hevi-13's put 165 pellets in the same 10" circle at 40 yards. Here's a pic:
