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Originally Posted by Daniel Carter
Just saw an ad in the American Hunter mag. from the NRA for a dove load.It is from Winchester and called magnum dove. 1 1/4 oz. at 1400 fps with a mix of7 1/2 and9 shot. The American magnum itis is alive and well.
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Sounds like the moronic loads they came up with (I think it was Remington) in the heyday of Canada goose hunting (c. 1970 - 1985). Called something like a "magnum duplex" load, half #BBs and half #2s for geese out of a pit; half #2s and half #4s for geese or "big ducks" over decoys. Crammed into a 2 3/4" shell with nose-bleeding velocities and eye-watering recoil! Net result was a bumper crop of crippled birds taken too far out or "flock shot" counting on the smaller sized shot to smother pitching birds as they clumped up for landing.