HEAVY WEIGHT 13 SHOT & GEESE

[J. A. EARLY]

With raw Hevi-shot out of sight in price now I gave HeavyWeight 13 a try. This stuff is heavier/denser than Hevi-shot and far denser than lead. I could only find a 1 3/4 ounce load as the heaviest load data for the 3.5" 12 gauge using the Sam1 wad with 31 grains of Steel and Win 209 primers. While you New England PGCA members were snowed under Saturday we had a bluebird day and cold. Two flocks of geese produced a limit of five with two birds killed with one shot, one killed dead as a doornail and the other flying beside him getting a broken wing from the HeavyWeight 13. I was impressed. I counted 205 pellets in the 1 3/4 ounce load of 4s, and that number of pellets would mean the number 4s weight about the same as a load of number 3s would be weight wise in lead. I'm convinced it is good stuff, as the picture below will tell.

After calling a half dozen used to be hunters and no one would go, I took one of the cannons instead of a Parker since I was shooting all by myself and wanted to try the shot (so there was no one else claiming my birds!). Had limit by 8:30 and time to go after rabbits a little while that afternoon after a lot of skinning birds. Parker was one for two on rabbits.