Thread: Ammo advice for the new duckshooter...

I hate to say it but NZ Hunter had some good articles on ammo types,steel,tungsten,bismith?

More important would be to get ammo that patterns well in your gun, from what I have read it is just like rifles where one will love a ammo type and the next will hate it.

This is from someone who doesnt hunt birds and doesnt use a shotgun

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I hate to say it but NZ Hunter had some good articles on ammo types,steel,tungsten,bismith?

More important would be to get ammo that patterns well in your gun, from what I have read it is just like rifles where one will love a ammo type and the next will hate it.

This is from someone who doesnt hunt birds and doesnt use a shotgun

Yep most non-tox but not steel is actually very good ammo but the cost is horrendus. And you need to do some practice with it.
But if you use steel you don't need to use the heavy heavy loads.

Thank you, @mikee, hmmmm, might just bite the bullet and stick with the steel...it is not as if I am going to be limiting out everyday...I would just like a few for the freezer!!!! I just personally think that the steel is ultimately more toxic than lead, but we won't go into that

Thank you both again. Do appreciate your thoughts.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

More important would be to get ammo that patterns well in your gun, from what I have read it is just like rifles where one will love a ammo type and the next will hate it.

@veitnamcam, thank you. I have found for lead that the Eley, 36 g does a really nice pattern...I tested it up to 35 metres which is about the range where I shoot...find it strange how each gun can be made exactly the same but they can pattern differently...