Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: Everydaylimits on August 13, 2020, 09:51:55 AM
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Check out this video as we are coming up on teal season. Look at the difference between #2 and #4 shot:
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WA doesn’t have a teal season. :dunno: If they did, I would use #6.
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WA doesn’t have a teal season. :dunno: If they did, I would use #6.
Correct but there are still times and areas that the majority of birds you will see are teals. I hunt with 3's or 4's and still won't shoot teals unless they are more that 20 yards away. I remember one time I had a few land in my decoys on a slow day and I wanted to get the dog some work so I flushed them and shot at the farthest one out. At the same time, a close one went directly into the line of fire and I drilled it. I ended up shooting one other and when the dog came back with the close one, there was a piece of wing and small portion of the torso left. :chuckle:
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I hunt teal in Oregon. I'm always amazed at how nimble they are at changing directions once a shot goes off.
We typically switch to #6 steel when the bulk of birds coming in are teal (some days teal are all you see early season).
Although these days I mostly just shoot #7 TSS at everything from teal to geese.
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Interesting points. Seems alot of people are using #6 for teal. I like #4 because even if I dont use it all during teal it still can be used during diver season before I switch to #2.