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#486401 07/24/17 04:36 PM
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It's not a light load, but it's a dandy of a pheasant load at a sensible velocity. In this day and age of 1400+ fps 'pheasant loads" it could be considered light, relatively speaking. Below is an RST "Pheasant Load." It's a 12 gauge 1 1/4 oz. load of hard 5's at 1200 fps. I've patterned this load several times in a couple shotguns and it's always given a nice dense pattern downrange. This one was a laser measured 40 yards with a .020 modified choke. I actually stood at 41 yards.

I have been a fan of the B&P 1 1/4 oz nickel plated loads at 1330 fps, but this RST load patterns better and kicks a magnitude less. It's going in the top, modified barrel of a 6 1/2 pound Merkel 200E.

(I mislabeled the note in the corner of the pattern paper. It's not a Kent load. I was patterning some other Kent loads and wrote down the wrong name.)




Just for grins here's the Kent/Gamebore load. It's an ounce of Brit 6's at 25 yards from a skeet-choked barrel. I give Larry Brown credit for turning me on to these. They are peppy, but a good load for the lightish Merkel O/U. (Pretty tight for a fiber wad!)



And the gun. It's a 200E stamped 6/60. (This whole post was a sneaky way to brag about a new shotgun.)



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B&P MB Classic 5s at 30 yds.
.030 choke left barrel L.C. Smith 12g.
1 1/8 oz. 3 1/2 dram eq. @ 1330 fps. 171/191 = 89.5%.
Pressure reported by B&P to be 8,416 psi


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Looks great, Drew!

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The pheasants around Plankinton & Presho were suitably impressed wink
My low-life Philistine buddies shooting Benelli SBEs with 1 3/8 oz 4s didn't say much smile

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SOOOOO, you also have low-life Phillistine buddies
AND your new name is Samson smile
Judges" Chapter 15

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Originally Posted By: skeettx
SOOOOO, you also have low-life Phillistine buddies
AND your new name is Samson smile
Judges" Chapter 15

Mike


Drew reminds me more of the young shepherd boy David, with his five smooth stones ( only one of which was needed, BTW). wink

SRH

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My better side wink
Guy on the right grew up in Ulysses, KS, is an ambidextrous Orthopedic Surgeon specializing in knee and shoulder arthroscopy which requires extremely good eye-hand coordination, and is the best wing shot I've ever seen. One time near Butler, MO a quail flushed in front of him and he caught the butt of his gun on his vest; killed the bird shooting from the hip. Unfortunately hunting Sage Grouse near Pinedale, WY he shot a bird at (I paced) 50 yds. When I cleaned the bird not a pellet to be found. Big old bird musta died of a heart attack, but thereafter he'd shoot at anything within 50 yds frown


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Ahh. Plankinton & Presho. Don't be giving away such good pheasant hunting sites!


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Not sure how bad the drought is in that part of SD. But it may not be that good this season.

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Since the thread has no firm direction I'll add I'm a SxS fan who strays to O/U's here and there (the shame!).. I've learned that the 12 ga. guns are the prime choice in the Merkel O/U's. The 16's are wands, but the 12's find the target a whole lot better in my hands.

Fingers crossed for South Dakota birds.


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