To those who doubt the effectivness of a shot charge moving at 1100-1200 fps let me give you a bit of my background.
I have been haunting duck marshes for nearly 50 years. Apparently we were poor during my youth (us kids didn’t know it). I grew up hunting with an old sxs 13 gauge muzzleloading shotgun shooting blackpowder, card wads and lead 6’s. A charge of 2 3/4 drams of Dupont 2f, and 1 1/8 oz of shot was all I ever used. Dad used the same load in an old 12 gauge breechloader.
Being that my muzzleloader had no choke, long shots were not an option.
I do not believe ducks have gotten harder to kill over the last half century seeing how I still use loads with the same ballistics to kill ducks today. Yes, I do on occation use bp loads as I did in the past.
While I am fairly new to the 10 gauge, duck hunting is old hat.
Yes, I did edit my post this morning after it was pointed out that I had forgotten to include the shot charge.
Matt
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