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Quote from: BOWHUNTER45 on June 01, 2012, 01:23:43 AMQuote from: Mr56Jeep on May 31, 2012, 08:27:50 PMHmmmmm..... I'm a big fan of the 3" Fiocci and I like the Federal blue box in 3" also. I like the idea but I'll have to think about it. I use more on the order of 2 to 2-1/2 cases a year. Not sure I want a 5 year suply on hand? Or do I? I prefer the spagetti loads too Do not hear of many using 2 3/4 shells with steel...unless your a very disciplined fowler who lets the birds get within 20 yrds or so Lots of places the hunter can only take 25 shells. So no sky busting or go home early.Reading some of these shell use stories per year has me confused. When in school I hunted 3-4 days per week jumping ducks, pheasants, and hunting geese and never came close to shooting a case on the best years. 8 boxes 200 loads that's a lot of shooting in the Field. Even 50% at the plate that's 100 birds.
Quote from: Mr56Jeep on May 31, 2012, 08:27:50 PMHmmmmm..... I'm a big fan of the 3" Fiocci and I like the Federal blue box in 3" also. I like the idea but I'll have to think about it. I use more on the order of 2 to 2-1/2 cases a year. Not sure I want a 5 year suply on hand? Or do I? I prefer the spagetti loads too Do not hear of many using 2 3/4 shells with steel...unless your a very disciplined fowler who lets the birds get within 20 yrds or so
Hmmmmm..... I'm a big fan of the 3" Fiocci and I like the Federal blue box in 3" also. I like the idea but I'll have to think about it. I use more on the order of 2 to 2-1/2 cases a year. Not sure I want a 5 year suply on hand? Or do I?
Wow you are one lucky guy to get that much time off!! im jealous wish i was you! being 15 i have to go to school 250 birds means that you would have to limit out about 36 days
I went through a case of ten gauge and two of 12. Can't hit em if ya don't shoot and I'm a 3" man myself.
Quote from: johnnyaustin44 on June 01, 2012, 01:14:26 PMI went through a case of ten gauge and two of 12. Can't hit em if ya don't shoot and I'm a 3" man myself.For me it's bang, swat, and splash stone dead for each shot. I get real frustrated with myself when I'm taking multiple shots per bird or cripples. I don't know or care about anyone here but my experience at the public refuge, some of the shots others try, makes me wonder if that was even legal. But my attitude is hunt the way I was taught and let others do what they want, even if it means educating birds all morning long.
Quote from: hdshot on June 01, 2012, 01:02:14 PMQuote from: BOWHUNTER45 on June 01, 2012, 01:23:43 AMQuote from: Mr56Jeep on May 31, 2012, 08:27:50 PMHmmmmm..... I'm a big fan of the 3" Fiocci and I like the Federal blue box in 3" also. I like the idea but I'll have to think about it. I use more on the order of 2 to 2-1/2 cases a year. Not sure I want a 5 year suply on hand? Or do I? I prefer the spagetti loads too Do not hear of many using 2 3/4 shells with steel...unless your a very disciplined fowler who lets the birds get within 20 yrds or so Lots of places the hunter can only take 25 shells. So no sky busting or go home early.Reading some of these shell use stories per year has me confused. When in school I hunted 3-4 days per week jumping ducks, pheasants, and hunting geese and never came close to shooting a case on the best years. 8 boxes 200 loads that's a lot of shooting in the Field. Even 50% at the plate that's 100 birds. Jump shooting is entirely different that hunting in a group of over decoys. Plenty of times that bird get shot by more than one person, birds get tougher to kill once they start flaring and are much harder to hit then when jump shooting, etc. I did a lot of jump shooting in college and it was relatively easy to kill a bird at least one out of two shots. Plenty of times getting a triple was easy. Not so easy on decoying birds. Also, plenty of people kill well over 100 birds a year....
Quote from: hdshot on June 01, 2012, 10:54:19 PMQuote from: johnnyaustin44 on June 01, 2012, 01:14:26 PMI went through a case of ten gauge and two of 12. Can't hit em if ya don't shoot and I'm a 3" man myself.For me it's bang, swat, and splash stone dead for each shot. I get real frustrated with myself when I'm taking multiple shots per bird or cripples. I don't know or care about anyone here but my experience at the public refuge, some of the shots others try, makes me wonder if that was even legal. But my attitude is hunt the way I was taught and let others do what they want, even if it means educating birds all morning long. If you're worried about birds getting educated you're not doing it correctly. Ducks live for up to and sometimes longer than 20 years. What would be illegal about a hunter taking any shot as long as it was within a legal hunting area and within legal shooting time with legal equipment? Get off your high horse and get back on a donkey. You're not any better than anyone else on here.
Quote from: Mathews Heli m on June 01, 2012, 07:19:12 PMWow you are one lucky guy to get that much time off!! im jealous wish i was you! being 15 i have to go to school 250 birds means that you would have to limit out about 36 days or shoot 3 or 4 every day for 70 days or so.
Quote from: duckkillerclyde on June 01, 2012, 09:55:55 PMQuote from: Mathews Heli m on June 01, 2012, 07:19:12 PMWow you are one lucky guy to get that much time off!! im jealous wish i was you! being 15 i have to go to school 250 birds means that you would have to limit out about 36 days or shoot 3 or 4 every day for 70 days or so. EVEN BETTER!!! 70 days of duck hunting!!! now im really jeasous
If the winds cranking I'm out hunting ducks. Try figuring out leads when it's 20- 30+ mph which is comon in the bay. If your 2-6' lead at 30 yards isn't on, on your first shot it may be a miss and the following two are even worse. You can burn through some shells. The other shell eaters are snows. Early season they decoy well, later in the season they become tall shots in many cases. I practice all season and early season, I will shoot a case or two of inexpensive steel at 5 stand to get dialed in.