Hevi Shot revisited
 

I understand the properties of the new HS material and its success at still target competitions held by the NWTF.
I checked out the statistics of HS vs. lead at Remington's website http://www.remington.com/whatsnew/he...et_pattern.htm
and the facts raise a few questions. They are using a HS choke on the new shot and a Ventilator on the lead shot, but increased performance is seen minimally at 40 yards and more at 50 yards.
How many hunters out there are pulling off shots at that yardage.
Most birds are probably shot under 35 yards these days anyways, so putting the hammer to a turkey is still more cost effective using lead, right? Your feedback is welcomed.

RE: Hevi Shot revisited
 

I am using the Nitro hevi shot load in my 3 1/2" 870 super mag. The pellet count in a ten inch circle at 40 yards is TWICE AS MUCH AS LEAD! I figure that since I can only kill a limited number of turkeys
it doesnt really matter how much the ammo costs. $1.00 a shot for copperplated lead or $4.00 a shot for hevi shot doesnt really concern me considering how much everything else costs.
If we were talking about dove loads, then costs would matter!

RE: Hevi Shot revisited
 

If you're using a tight choke I doubt the pattern from hevi-shot turkey will be any greater than regular lead. Most turkey chokes are recommended for lead only(some copper-plated). And since hevi-shot is harder, it won't give like the lead will. If you were using hevi-shot without a choke then I bet it would be better but with a tight choke I doubt it would be much better at all, and much hard on your turkey choke. Befre you use this stuff in your tight turkey choke make sure you research up a lot about it, and that your choke will handle it.
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RE: Hevi Shot revisited
 

I tried it last year and patterned my gun with both. I also followed their recommendations and used a choke with the Hevi-shot that is approved for steel shot. I used 3.5 inch #5 with my regular tru-glo turkey choke. I only patterned out to 40 yards (I don't feel comfortable past that range) and up to that point the lead shot with the turkey choke put more pellets in the kill Zone. The Hevi-shot is supposed to carry more energy but I had no way to measure that so I stuck with my traditional lead load.

RE: Hevi Shot revisited
 

Spend the money on a Rhino choke tube and get the hevi shot ecomomy loads from nitrocompany.com and you will never shoot anything else again i promise unbelievable results

RE: Hevi Shot revisited
 

Mike Dyer is right! bY using the Nitro loads you can shoot a MUCH tighter choke and the patterns are UNBELIEVABLE!

RE: Hevi Shot revisited
 

I use a 660 ported rhino in my 870 and a 680 ported in my 835