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seanpavelka · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 2:49 pm Post subject: Dove loads

Who's got the best deal on a case of 12g 7-8 shot, 2-3/4? Anyone shop around yet?

poops2260 · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 10 Jul 2011 Posts: 286

Rio brand at academy are 59 bucks seem to be an ok shot. Oh and there brass! My gun will only cycle brass😁. Seems to be the same to equivalent to Remington sure shot heavy dove. (Which is my favorite load) but there at 68 bucks a case
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poops2260 · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 10 Jul 2011 Posts: 286

Still looking so keep me informed
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seanpavelka · Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:45 am Post subject:

poops2260 · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 10 Jul 2011 Posts: 286

Rios is a 1oz. My browning cycles 1oz loads fine if the dram is 3 or more. Drams is what measures the powder higher the dram hotter the load. My remington 1187 on the other hand as to be brass and 1 1/8 oz. but it's chamberd in 3 1/2.therefor I use only sure shot heavy dove
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poops2260 · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 10 Jul 2011 Posts: 286

Dam semi autos. 😡Lol.
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seanpavelka · Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 12:46 pm Post subject:

Learn something new every day. I didn't know about dram. I always thought the oz. was powder. I guess is the weight of bb's then?

kweber · Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:37 pm Post subject:

dram equivalent is a throw-back to black powder days...
back when shot shells used blk pwdr, they were loaded to certain dram weights of powder.
nowdays w/smokeless, the velocity of the loads are shown as dram equivalent ratings.
a lot of shell manufactors have since changed to velocity ratings on the load.
so instead of say 1 1/8 oz w/3 3/4 dram eq, the box may have 1 1/8oz at 1300fps.
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seanpavelka · Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:02 pm Post subject:

poops2260 · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 10 Jul 2011 Posts: 286

Which brings me to my question what duck shells y'all use I saw the black cloud looks good as does the price! Lol
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fairhunt1 · Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:58 pm Post subject:

After getting back into Duck hunting last year after a long vacation from it , I tried several loads and ended up with 3" #4 Black clouds.

Keep in mind this is in farm ponds and shooting them in the decoys .

Not all loads are good for all types of hunting. I do tend to like the flightstopper shot though . I purchased a flat of them at the end of last season to make sure I would have them for the start of this season.

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kweber · Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 7:29 am Post subject:

my old browning a-5 ('50's model humpback) and my rem 1100 (old, too)(26in skeet barrel)( love it on first day fat whitewings) shoot the cheap dove loads and cycle every time.
for early teal the 1100 shoots the cheap #6 steel every time, too.
for bigger stuff like geese, I have a Mossy 835 pump(1st yr issue)blued w/wood that runs any 12ga shell known.
that big rascal will give ya a fat lip w/3.5's if you aint got it tight Laughing

only use the big shells for pass shooting geese at the camp. 3in are what I use in the ricefield.
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poops2260 · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 10 Jul 2011 Posts: 286

Well me and my wife went through 3 boxs each of the rio. 12 gauge and 20 gauge both one oz loads and performed awesome. I love the 20s high brass. I'm getting a case of each
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