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Quote from: JLS on January 08, 2013, 09:38:18 PMIf you can't kill a bird by hitting him twice with #2 and once with BB, my guess is you're shooting too far. Lots of ducks have died to 3" loads, heck the other day I found out at the end of the shoot that I was shooting 2 3/4 " loads. I grabbed the wrong box in the dark. Good shots still killed the birds.Pattern your gun, go to a tighter choke and/or a different load. I've killed a lot of birds with Winchester HV steel, waterfowl and upland.Don't get me wrong, I've knocked down plenty of ducks with this setup. And you have a valid point about the distance of the shot, this Drake was past the decoys which ended about 35-40 yards. But i would like to have the option of having 2 3in with a 3.5in backer. I would also like to chamber a 3.5 for any goose possibility, and my Winchester won't. Am I crazy for wanting to have this option? Ultimately my post was about a stoeger m3500 and if anybody happened to have tried it.
If you can't kill a bird by hitting him twice with #2 and once with BB, my guess is you're shooting too far. Lots of ducks have died to 3" loads, heck the other day I found out at the end of the shoot that I was shooting 2 3/4 " loads. I grabbed the wrong box in the dark. Good shots still killed the birds.Pattern your gun, go to a tighter choke and/or a different load. I've killed a lot of birds with Winchester HV steel, waterfowl and upland.
I have been out 15 to 20 duck trips this year and haven't had a jam yet with the 3500. Even have the 2000 and never seen a jam in that gun and probably shot 150 ducks with that in years past. Stoeger makes awesome guns.I also bought a mossberg 935 2 years ago and after about 20 shots it will jam consistently. Been that way since I bought it. Some times it don't even take that many shots. It gets dirty very quickly.The stoegers stay very clean for a long time. Even when I try to clean it there isn't much to clean.I do by kicks high flyer full chokes for hunting ducks and don't have many cripples. Sometimes I think it's overkill. But I'd rather over kill than chasing cripples around.Stoeger was bought out by benelli/berreta, so that there tells you it's a good gun. You will get a good gun at half the cost.I know some may bad mouth me for this but dicks sporting goods had it for 650 a few days ago.Awesome gun
Me and my dad have stoegers he has the 3500 and nothin went wrong with it and it shot very smooth he said. And we went through I think 2 boxes with no problem
Quote from: crow killer on January 08, 2013, 11:11:38 PMMe and my dad have stoegers he has the 3500 and nothin went wrong with it and it shot very smooth he said. And we went through I think 2 boxes with no problem 2 boxes??? It's not even broke in. I think Benelli recommends a case of shells. I think I am around 36 cases of shells through my Benelli SBEII. I am on my 3rd ejector plate and second recoil spring cylinder. I shaved off 1/16"+ off the tail end of the plate and haven't had any issues since.