Thread: 20/12

I found black cloud, cuts up the meat much worse that normal steel, but it does kill well,

yea they,ve got some murderous name for the shape of thier shot i have noticed it in thier lead loads to its a butcherer of meat.
not to mention quite stout recoil in a supposed 2 3/4 inch one ounce load.

I don't really agree, the only way you can check a shoot string, is with high speed camera equipment, ]

true its hARDLY SCIENTIFIC BUT IS VISUALLY QUITE SURPRISING even more so is the difference between strings from 12g lead to steel.
which generally seem to shoot higher
im dying to see if its the same for 20 gauge steel not
i could be wrong but the different stringing and shooting higher in 12.s especially is i reckon the reason its hard to kill wingers with steel.
im my experience you have to aim at the water line with steel where as with lead you could nut them with a point of aim shot.
but as said nothings more important than choke selection and patterning with steel with stark variations often from load to load.

Some times I think, in hunting/fishing, we tend to over think, the technical things a bit, esp when inside, and thinking about the next trip/mission.

some would say we clutch for straws to rationolise our poor shooting.
or to make sence of the unsencible ability to kill cleanly and make every shot one day but be crap the next.
but i couldnt possibly comment