Magnum loads

[Bill Anderson]

Originally Posted by tom tutwiler

Just curious, any idea on the pressure of that load? I know RST is pretty good at providing info. I'd see those as nice turkey loads or even nicer pheasant loads out west where the shots are long and the wind always blows.

Alex Papp at RST just answered the pressure question I gave him yesterday on their 12 gauge 1 1/4 oz pheasant loads .
It is 7500 PSI

Bill

[tom tutwiler]

Originally Posted by Bill Anderson

Alex Papp at RST just answered the pressure question I gave him yesterday on their 12 gauge 1 1/4 oz pheasant loads .
It is 7500 PSI

Bill

Sweet, I'll be shooting those out of a number of my older Parkers at Turkey's, as well an old Fox or two.

[Double Lab]

Pete has hit the nail on the head. I have yet to find a bird (including turkeys, ducks and geese) that can't be cleanly killed with a 1 1/8oz. trap load of hard 7 1/2's. I know many will disagree but to me the real sport is to decoy the birds in to under 35yds. and with a wonderfully full choked Parker or Fox then center the pattern on their neck/head. Thump... bird down. If the bird won't respond to my calls and decoys then he wins that day. I don't own a 10ga.(yet) but when I do I'll bump up my payload to 1 1/4oz.- 7 1/2's. Everything being equal (shot size, velocity and choke constriction) there is roughly an effective increase of 5 yds. for every 1/8oz. increase in payload up to 40yds. or so. After that it's a crapshoot. JMHO.