HEVI-METAL verses HEVI-SHOT

[Scott Gentry]

Originally Posted by Phillip Carr

Thanks for the information. Of course you are right. Shells gernerally are the least expensive item on the hunt. In January I took some people out hunting Gamble quail. I asked them to buy some good quaity shells in 6 or 7 1/2 's and I would supply everything else. I went on to explain there as a fair number of birds where we were going to be hunting but the birds were jumpy late in the season. Since we would be hunting just one day I told them they only needed about 4 or 5 boxes of shells between the 4 of them and they would have shells left over. The next day they showed up with 2 100 packs of #8's from Walmart. Said that they had decided that since the shells were such a great deal they bought double the amount, that I had told them they needed. They saved 3 to 4 dollars a box. Though they had to settle for number 8's. We ended up getting into a lot of birds but lost more birds then I care to talk about. I will not find myself in that situation again.
I shot Bismuth this year, jumpy shooting ducks off of the desert tanks, and was happy with the results, also shot some steel out of my Benelli. Did not like shooting the steel. No comaprison. I'll try buying up some Hevi-Shot for next year, or give the Tungsten Matrix a try.

Phil

Used Hevi-Steel this year ( in SBE not a Parker) and was very pleased with the results. Performed well with Kicks High Flyer (full) extended choke.