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10-27-2014, 06:21 AM

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dubob

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Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: Hooper, UT

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Originally Posted by Bring Me The Horizion

I mainly goose hunt but I got a Patternmaster Anaconda choke tube and I've shot hevi-metal and I'm not a fan because it's hard to get a good balance with the two different sized shots and I've also shot blindsides and I can't seem to kill a whole lot.

I've been using Hevi-Shot for over a dozen years for geese (2 3/4", #4 shot). I shoot them with a Beretta Silver Mallard (390) using the IC factory choke tube. I pattern tested several different choke tubes and found the factory IC to give very even patterns at 40 yards; better than any other chokes I had at the time. Most of my kills have been over decoys and very few birds hit the ground still alive. I've also had more than a couple of dozen one shot kills on geese 40 yards plus out to 82 paces. The Hevi-Shot component in your Hevi-Metal shells will do the job if you do yours. Try a more open choke on the pattern board and see what your gun/choke combination is doing at 40 yards. Look for even distribution with reasonable pellet count.

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