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What is your favorite off-the-shelf 16 gauge shell for wild pheasants? My gun is light and modern, cost of shells is unimportant, as is recoil. I tend to like #5 and #6 shot.
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If recoil is not an issue, then I like Fiocchi Golden Pheasant loads. They are stout, however.
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What could possibly be better then the old tried and true 3 1/4 dram equiv., 1 1/8 ounce of shot Super-X, Nitro Express or Hi-Power?
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Yep, Golden Pheasants do pack a wallop, but how many shot do you take in a day..............
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What could possibly be better then the old tried and true 3 1/4 dram equiv., 1 1/8 ounce of shot Super-X, Nitro Express or Hi-Power? Red paper only, that's all I use.... 
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Oh my...and in 5's!
U REALLY shooting those up?
Patterns?
I have some in 20ga 1 1/8 - 6.....will not hesitate to smoke em in grandpas gun...hell, he bought em.
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Wild, pen raised it doesn't matter. I used to like the Gamebore 2&12" #6 felt wad shells but recently purchased a flat of RST 3/4oz for lower recoil. The RST shoot very nicely in the 5# 9oz 16 gauge I have but I have not done any comparison between the two yet for pattern or recoil.-Dick
Last edited by Dick_dup1; 10/10/09 05:25 AM.
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Mark, Last year I shot RST 1 oz #5's but felt, late in the season that a bit more oomph was needed. Ballistic Products just had a great sale, and I bought a bunch of Fiochi "High Velocity" 1 1/8oz 5's & 6's. I patterned them in 3 of my 16's, seem to be ok, and have shot them 6 times at live things. One loong shot at a sharpie, one short shot at a porcupine and 4 of Mrs. Rooneys pigeons. I tried the Golden Pheasants a couple of years ago, and besides the kick, had more than a few FTF's. If memory serves, you did also, in 12 bore a few years back? I am going to use the RST's in the right and the Fiochis in the left, this year. Seeya
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Remington Black hull Gameloads, 1,0 oz #6 shot did very well for me last year, from a 6lb, 03 oz Sauer Hammer double with tight chokes and patterns and lightweight sling. Shot close rizers in head, SOP. Only problem was on two long shots (40+ yards), where none of many pellets hitting penetrated deeply enough through rear of bird to give clean kill, although one bird folded on shot and other never moved from where it fell, tens of yards further on -- needed Cu-plated #5s for those shots. Every bird that flew, died last year. Intend to replace #6 black shot with #5 Cu-plated this year. Hope I get same % kills!!
Used WW 1 1/8 oz #6 1185 fps loads for years in a light kombi gun, for which they were only factory loads that patterned well. Way too much recoil in light gun for anything other than a few shots hunting.
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