nice shot

OH Osthaus · 12-09-2016, 11:07 AM

I tried to beef up the inventory on more Nice Shot #4 this week, but just got a call they ran out - and would I like 6's instead or a refund

size 6 have showed as in stock when I check

I took the 6's ( since I still have about 10 lbs of 4's on hand already)

I have not tried their 6's on ducks - long ago, 6's worked fine in lead over decoys- so I assume these will do as well.

has any one use Nice Shot 6's on big ducks- any complaints?

Dean Romig · 12-09-2016, 12:52 PM

I always used #6 lead back before the ban. It worked great on close range ducks but failed on incomers unless they caught some pellets in the head and neck. I did most of my duck shooting along woodland streams so most shots were 25 - 35 yards. It worked great on ducks rising off the stream above the cattails and brush.

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OH Osthaus · 12-09-2016, 01:06 PM

pretty much my line of thought Dean- I used the smaller shot back then in areas where I had closer shots and over decoys

I seem to remember seeing more broken wings with the pattern density (although we are dating our selves here ) - so if it as not a clean kill (still the goal) at least a recoverable duck.

I think Nice Shot is just a very little denser than lead - I still have some lead 4's - i will try to find some time to count out an equal number of lead and NS and weigh them to see what that shows. Then I will have a better feeling for the effectiveness of the 6's

OH Osthaus · 12-09-2016, 02:37 PM

I took 100 pellets at random

lead (from an old Remington express load) weight =315.3 grains

NS - weight = 281.8 grains

so NS is a little less dense - roughly 90%

size - i took three pellets

lead averaged .128
NS averaged .125 a PS - 97% of the lead size - so not enough to cause the weight/density variance

I am guessing ducks will not know the difference assuming equal velocity

I am NOT cutting a Kent TM open for this

but according to other testers - TM is 10.8 g / cc and lead is 11.35 g / cc
so TM is about 95% as dense - pretty close to NS

ok - found this extra info - Nice Shot comes in right at 10.2 – 10.3 g/cc
so- again very close to TM