I buy them in the off season when they are on sale then when the local stores sell out during season I use last year's sale buys and it seems to work when everyone else can't go because of no shells I'm out slaying them.
I hunt a pond on my dad's farm. During duck season its typically wetter than during the summer and the pond floods into the standing timber. I use Hevi Steel #4 shot 3 inch shells and my Versa Max loves them! I've had good luck with these rounds.
Any reason you don't just buy a case of shells when you go into KC or order online? Rogers is almost always doing free shipping on ammo. Sometimes you can get rebates on full cases as well.
Winchester expert 2 3/4 #4 seems to be the magical load for big ducks . Anything else from 3" or different size shot doesnt work as well as those #4 they are a anomaly . Choke them down to a starting point of mod choke and tighter and you will crush any duck from decoy range out to 35 yards . Just try 1 box of win expert 2 3/4 #4 through a mod or full choke and you will be very happy with the results . Haven't used a 3" shell since I found this combo and have very few cripples if any .
I have a buddy who shoots Rio 2-3/4" # 4's and makes them look really good with a modified choke in his SBE II. Hard to argue with a guy when he's kicking your ass in a duck blind. lol
I buy a box a week in the off season. Won't break the bank and can always get it on sale. Plus there isn't too many other people looking for steel at that time. I still have 250 rnds of #2 and 100 rnds of BB. I'm set for next season already.
I love 2 3/4” #6 for Teal and Woodies. I like 3” 4’s for bigger ducks, but I hunt in some areas that a shot out to 35 yds is rare, and so it doesn’t take a cannon to kill a bird. Geese? I like 3” 2’s..
in my area we never run out ever in and out of season. as for ducks ,federal blue 4,3,2 shot in 3" works great knocks em all down out to 60 yards (providing you have proper choke) as for geese 2,1,bb also 3" out to about 50 the larger shot never seems to pattern as well for me.
Spot on! Especially "the people at Walmart are stupid." You would think they'd listen if they can't see, but yeah, no. Mack's usually has pretty good deals on Dryloks. Lot's of Red Heads here on the south Texas coast. Big open salt flats, all public water and they get hunted hard, so 3 inch 3's for ducks and 3 inch or 3-1/2 inch BB's for geese. Two thumbs up.
In the past i shot #6 for teal, #2 for ducks and BB for geese. Two years ago I switched to Remington hypersonic #1 and it has become my favorite for ducks and geese other than teal. But! You are correct, whatever works for you is more important than what works for someone else. Great videos, keep em coming!
Michigan here.. 3 inch for all.. #2 for ducks. BB for geese. Mid to late season the birds get thick in Michigan (gets colder than most areas) and I will use #1 and #2 for ducks and BBB for geese. This does not include early teal or wood duck. For them little jets I use #3 or #4. MOD CHOKE all day everyday. I use Federal premium (new black cloud shells old ones didn’t like so much)
Scott Smith does 3 shot work? I'm very new. Got shells and a call yesterday and tried it by myself because I want to learn and I got my limit of green heads and geese
My go to ammo for duck hunting is 12ga 3 inch # 3's in Federal Black Cloud out of a .675 Terror Choke Tube.. My go to ammo for goose hunting is 10ga 3 1/2 Federal Black Cloud in BB out of a .720 Terror Choke Tube.. Both are hands down lights out deadly on ducks and geese..
@@gadgethunter5732 Here in PA.. Goose hunting.. I either use my Remington SP 10ga or Browning BPS 10 ga with the .720 terror choke.. If I'm duck hunting.. I either use my Browning Gold or my 12 ga BPS with the .675 Terror choke tube..
Walmart by me is the same way. Asked the sporting goods guy if they had any steel shot and he pointed me towards a shelf with all lead shot, no steel in sight and then he told me it’s the same thing... damnit Walmart.
Avian Outdoors yeah I was being a smarta$$ because of Tim Wells recent Hick Up when he went and hunted canadas with a bow. He called em Canadians on national tv
Here's what I use in North zone PA Early september goose: #2 Early in duck season: #4 Mid duck season with the mallards come down: #3 or #2 Late season goose: BB I try to use 3" all the time
Daniel Colombo I usually shoot Black Cloud 3" #3 throughout the season for ducks but I'll change it up sometimes. #3 is definitely a good all around shot size especially if it patterns awesome like it does out of my gun
In Calif. and have an older Browning Auto 5 and was strongly suggested and shown that 2 3/4 1 1/4 #4 Bismuth (will not say brand) would be the choice for Ducks.
Reel-Lentless thank you however the auto 5 I have was made in Japan so barrel can handle both lead and steel. So far I have only shot lead (Trap target shells). When I finally go Duck hunting I will use Bismuth.
This is probably a dumb question but....I have a cylinder bore home defense shotgun and I'd like to know what shooting 2 3/4 or 3" BB fowl loads at close range would be like...way to big of a pattern or would it be at all similar to some kind of buckshot? I already have slugs and 00 buck...just looking for other types of birdshot to mess around with at targets.
#2 all the way duck geese anything but teal I use #6 FOR teals. Honesty all what it take the goose to drop it is 1 BB in the wing or the neck or any please in the face.
New to duck hunting and at moment the only gun have is a western field 12 gauge with a poly choke( Mossberg 500) the choke has full and Mod sittings just wondering if I should use the full choke or modified choke for duck and what would be a good shot size for this old gun?
3 1/2” bb smokes them like nothing I’ve seen before. I’ve always used 3” #2 #4 and #6 but after trying a 3 1/2” bb on my last couple hunts I’m never going back . Way less cripples. less shots aswell
I shoot number 4,3 shot 3" or 2 3/4 at geese and ducks with my beretta a300 xtrema pattern master choke, prairie shot score ammo and have had great results! Why shoot at a bird with a bigger pellet when 4s have more lethal impact!
I live in central florida and the mallards that I got are about the same size as a normal size goose I shot #4 at 30 yards feathers fell but the bird kept flying!!what shot size
Lol @ the folks that think they have to shoot 3.5's to kill ducks. Kent 20 gauge 3" #3 for ducks of all variety and 20 gauge hevimetal 2's for geese. You finish them innthe decoys and it won't matter what you're shooting.
Christian C chokes control the shot so a full choke has a tighter spread and a modified or a improved cylinder has a wider spread... he was talking about shot size so bigger the number 7.5 or 8 is small and 7, b,bb, 2,4 is bigger shot of that helps.
yes, modified is for those 30 yard max shots, i shoot full choke at both cause i make those longer shots at ducks and fir geese it is a lot easier to knock them down with a full choke and bb since they are so big
I shoot a SX 3 and Frianci 20ga and shoot Kent #4 and Black cloud #4 for ducks and #2 for geese you can also get 20 ga in Winchester. If your having trouble finding shells dro me a line and I will help you out.
I'm using BBs for geese and i cant seams to bring them down , i just came back from a goose hunt saw hundreds shot tons of shell BBs and not sure what the hell is going on, dam at one point there was a group of 30 to 50 geese flying over me at about a 50 yards i unloaded 3 shots on them and they kept on going , any advice to give me .
If you can find the right shell you are successful with at Walmart, Why would you buy it at Cabelas for the extremely over inflated price they charge for ammo?
@@rippenlipstv5738 we were taking decapitation head shots one sweet day when a buddy missed his lead and blew a hole straight through the breast of a big drake Redhead. Left the wings just barely tied together with its butt and neck and he was shooting 2-3/4" # 4's! 0_0 Distance helps, sometimes! LOL!
I buy them in the off season when they are on sale then when the local stores sell out during season I use last year's sale buys and it seems to work when everyone else can't go because of no shells I'm out slaying them.
I hunt a pond on my dad's farm. During duck season its typically wetter than during the summer and the pond floods into the standing timber. I use Hevi Steel #4 shot 3 inch shells and my Versa Max loves them! I've had good luck with these rounds.
Any reason you don't just buy a case of shells when you go into KC or order online? Rogers is almost always doing free shipping on ammo. Sometimes you can get rebates on full cases as well.
Winchester expert 2 3/4 #4 seems to be the magical load for big ducks . Anything else from 3" or different size shot doesnt work as well as those #4 they are a anomaly . Choke them down to a starting point of mod choke and tighter and you will crush any duck from decoy range out to 35 yards . Just try 1 box of win expert
2 3/4 #4 through a mod or full choke and you will be very happy with the results . Haven't used a 3" shell since I found this combo and have very few cripples if any .
I have a buddy who shoots Rio 2-3/4" # 4's and makes them look really good with a modified choke in his SBE II. Hard to argue with a guy when he's kicking your ass in a duck blind. lol
I buy a box a week in the off season.
Won't break the bank and can always get it on sale.
Plus there isn't too many other people looking for steel at that time.
I still have 250 rnds of #2 and 100 rnds of BB.
I'm set for next season already.
can you use 2 shot on Canadian geese? want something a little more versatile.
I love 2 3/4” #6 for Teal and Woodies. I like 3” 4’s for bigger ducks, but I hunt in some areas that a shot out to 35 yds is rare, and so it doesn’t take a cannon to kill a bird. Geese? I like 3” 2’s..
in my area we never run out ever in and out of season. as for ducks ,federal blue 4,3,2 shot in 3" works great knocks em all down out to 60 yards (providing you have proper choke) as for geese 2,1,bb also 3" out to about 50 the larger shot never seems to pattern as well for me.
Have you ever tried blackcloud? It’s all I use, “Drops ducks like rain” thats the truth. 3 inch number 2 shot.
Spot on! Especially "the people at Walmart are stupid." You would think they'd listen if they can't see, but yeah, no. Mack's usually has pretty good deals on Dryloks. Lot's of Red Heads here on the south Texas coast. Big open salt flats, all public water and they get hunted hard, so 3 inch 3's for ducks and 3 inch or 3-1/2 inch BB's for geese. Two thumbs up.
In the past i shot #6 for teal, #2 for ducks and BB for geese. Two years ago I switched to Remington hypersonic #1 and it has become my favorite for ducks and geese other than teal. But! You are correct, whatever works for you is more important than what works for someone else. Great videos, keep em coming!
Michigan here.. 3 inch for all.. #2 for ducks. BB for geese. Mid to late season the birds get thick in Michigan (gets colder than most areas) and I will use #1 and #2 for ducks and BBB for geese. This does not include early teal or wood duck. For them little jets I use #3 or #4. MOD CHOKE all day everyday. I use Federal premium (new black cloud shells old ones didn’t like so much)
I use Winchester super x large duck for goose hunting
Thank you for these videos as this will be my first year duck/goose hunting. I'm learning lots
I hand load all my loads, so availability is never an issue. I can make up whatever configuration of shell I want whenever.
# 2 - 3" on ducks and geese works fine. None of it matters if you shot the bird in the head.
Scott Smith does 3 shot work? I'm very new. Got shells and a call yesterday and tried it by myself because I want to learn and I got my limit of green heads and geese
I had a hs history teacher with your same name
consider getting into reloading shot shells you will always have what you need even when Wal-Mart doesn't have the size you need
@Reel-Lentless I call bs on that... When reloading, you are using the same case 5-8 times. How is buying shells every time instead, just as cheap?
What choke do you use for small pond timber areas like 25 yards max of shooting
My go to ammo for duck hunting is 12ga 3 inch # 3's in Federal Black Cloud out of a .675 Terror Choke Tube.. My go to ammo for goose hunting is 10ga 3 1/2 Federal Black Cloud in BB out of a
.720 Terror Choke Tube.. Both are hands down lights out deadly on ducks and geese..
What do you screw that 12ga terror choke into?
@@gadgethunter5732 Here in PA.. Goose hunting.. I either use my Remington SP 10ga or Browning BPS 10 ga with the .720 terror choke.. If I'm duck hunting.. I either use my Browning Gold or my 12 ga BPS with the .675 Terror choke tube..
Thanks to the guys suggesting Rogers thank you it helped me a lot !!!’n
I like 5 shot for teal and 3 shot for large ducks. Also 1 shot for longer shots.
Walmart by me is the same way. Asked the sporting goods guy if they had any steel shot and he pointed me towards a shelf with all lead shot, no steel in sight and then he told me it’s the same thing... damnit Walmart.
#7-6 - for teal , #6 ,5 , 4 , 3 - for ducks , #3 , 2 , 1 (BB) - for geese ☝😕 in Russia !!! ✋👏
3.5" BB all day EVERYDAY. Knock em ALL down from snipe to flaring Canada's... or is it Canadians? idk
Avian Outdoors yeah I was being a smarta$$ because of Tim Wells recent Hick Up when he went and hunted canadas with a bow. He called em Canadians on national tv
You guys shoot Canadians down there?
U use bb for snipe?! Is it good?
Canada's are geese Canadians are people,lol
It's Canadas. If it was Canadian they would say "honk, eh."
Here's what I use in North zone PA
Early september goose: #2
Early in duck season: #4
Mid duck season with the mallards come down: #3 or #2
Late season goose: BB
I try to use 3" all the time
Me too 2s and 4's is all I use but I don't think it's the best I can do. I'm going to try to move up a bit. 3's and 5's maybe🤔
Daniel Colombo I usually shoot Black Cloud 3" #3 throughout the season for ducks but I'll change it up sometimes. #3 is definitely a good all around shot size especially if it patterns awesome like it does out of my gun
In Calif. and have an older Browning Auto 5 and was strongly suggested and shown that 2 3/4 1 1/4 #4 Bismuth (will not say brand) would be the choice for Ducks.
Reel-Lentless thank you however the auto 5 I have was made in Japan so barrel can handle both lead and steel. So far I have only shot lead (Trap target shells). When I finally go Duck hunting I will use Bismuth.
It helped thanks. All I could find was 2 and 3/4 # 2 shot. It's my first Waterfowl season. Cross fingers
You should make a video on how you make your duck blinds in the morning
This is probably a dumb question but....I have a cylinder bore home defense shotgun and I'd like to know what shooting 2 3/4 or 3" BB fowl loads at close range would be like...way to big of a pattern or would it be at all similar to some kind of buckshot? I already have slugs and 00 buck...just looking for other types of birdshot to mess around with at targets.
#2 all the way duck geese anything but teal I use #6 FOR teals. Honesty all what it take the goose to drop it is 1 BB in the wing or the neck or any please in the face.
New to duck hunting and at moment the only gun have is a western field 12 gauge with a poly choke( Mossberg 500) the choke has full and Mod sittings just wondering if I should use the full choke or modified choke for duck and what would be a good shot size for this old gun?
3 1/2” bb smokes them like nothing I’ve seen before. I’ve always used 3” #2 #4 and #6 but after trying a 3 1/2” bb on my last couple hunts I’m never going back . Way less cripples. less shots aswell
I use 4 shot for ducks and 5 shot for doves and bb for chukar
3s in 3in from winchester the super x suck dont waste money. i hear the pellets hit and still they fly away like nothing lol
Try Dryloks, though. They won me over.
The same is here at my walmart
I usually shoot 2's or 4's for ducks as well, but if I go to a store and they have 3's available I will buy them all!
3 1/2 inch black cloud bb
3" bb early season "3'5" bb when October till the end of the season #nocripples #easyrecovery
2 3/4 #3's all day
Starting to get into ducks but I’ve always wanted to hunt geese
buy your shells from rogers sporting goods....all name brand shells....many under 100.00 per case....free shipping over 100.00
Is #8 fine for geese ?
John Dewling to big shoot #9 with a skeet choke good up to 90 yards
I shoot number 4,3 shot 3" or 2 3/4 at geese and ducks with my beretta a300 xtrema pattern master choke, prairie shot score ammo and have had great results! Why shoot at a bird with a bigger pellet when 4s have more lethal impact!
Short range goose 3” #2
I live in central florida and the mallards that I got are about the same size as a normal size goose I shot #4 at 30 yards feathers fell but the bird kept flying!!what shot size
I'm from Winfield bro! Walmart still has never changed! 😂
I would trust a 7 r 8 shot for ducks especially my 12ga.🦆🦆
Lol @ the folks that think they have to shoot 3.5's to kill ducks. Kent 20 gauge 3" #3 for ducks of all variety and 20 gauge hevimetal 2's for geese. You finish them innthe decoys and it won't matter what you're shooting.
im kinda confused with my english..what about chokes ? what chokes number do you use for ducks? thanks!
Christian C chokes control the shot so a full choke has a tighter spread and a modified or a improved cylinder has a wider spread... he was talking about shot size so bigger the number 7.5 or 8 is small and 7, b,bb, 2,4 is bigger shot of that helps.
Shoot what ya got just make sure you take ur time and are aiming at the bird
Me and my friends used 4 shot and hit 3 different ducks 8 times and it didn’t even phase the ducks they just flew away. Is size 4 too small?
Open question to any of you guys (I'm a rookie): What choke should I use on Ducks/Geese? Modifed for Duck, Full for Geese? Thanks
yes, modified is for those 30 yard max shots, i shoot full choke at both cause i make those longer shots at ducks and fir geese it is a lot easier to knock them down with a full choke and bb since they are so big
Is it good for home defense?
Depends on how much pepper you like on your meat
up hear in the north east you need 2s to punch through their thick down
luke.g Giampetruzzi that’s the truth!
I have a Remington 20 gauge with a full choke and I can only find a 7 shot
I shoot a SX 3 and Frianci 20ga and shoot Kent #4 and Black cloud #4 for ducks and #2 for geese you can also get 20 ga in Winchester. If your having trouble finding shells dro me a line and I will help you out.
Is BB better for geese i always used 2 or BBB
Order your shells from Rodgers Sporting good great prices and free shipping
Our land owner shoots 3 1/2 inch 1 shot for everything
Yes 🤣🤣lmao Kool you understand how hard to find ammo
Any Merch? @Outdoor Limits
Very helpful
3 1/2 FIOCCHI GOLDEN GOOSE 1 5/8 #1 ALL THE TIME BABY!!!
A 2 3/4" shell of #3 will kill ducks to 45 yards. The same shell with BB will kill decoying geese.
I'm using BBs for geese and i cant seams to bring them down , i just came back from a goose hunt saw hundreds shot tons of shell BBs and not sure what the hell is going on, dam at one point there was a group of 30 to 50 geese flying over me at about a 50
yards i unloaded 3 shots on them and they kept on going , any advice to give me .
That’s just over kill 3ich or 3-1/2 inch for ducks are u mad 2-3/4 it plenty
Rogers! Free shipping and cheaper by the case
3in #2s Xtra full choke
That's gotta be a sloppy pattern
@@charlieruprecht3196 hell no patterns like a dream all I shoot besides teal season I shoot IC
2 3/4. 2 shot
I don't use anything smaller than bb for ducks
That's why I hand load-- I don't have to shoot what my incompetent local stores carry.
I like shooting 1-1/4 oz #BB for pretty much everything.
My dad drives a semi for Wal-Mart I'll make sure to tell him to deliver more shells to the emporia Kansas Wal-Mart 😂😂😂
4 work fine
I prefer 6
1 hour to kc you may be close to me
More to it.....then comes chokes
Dont buy shells from walmart smh, support the cabelas and shells and other outfitters not walmartttttt🤮
If you can find the right shell you are successful with at Walmart, Why would you buy it at Cabelas for the extremely over inflated price they charge for ammo?
I don’t know about your Cabela’s but mine I’m not buying a 17 dollar box of 3 inch 2 shot when my Walmart is selling it for 12 dollars
V GOOD
Your face says you buy your ammo at Walmart
Imagine using 3 1/2 inch BB for ducks 😂😂
rippen lips tv when that’s all I had I did wasn’t to bad for big ducks but I shot a teal I swear feathers were falling for like 15 min
Noah Young hahaha I bet, I shot a teal with 3 inch 2 shot and there was a poof of feathers blowing in the wind
@@rippenlipstv5738 we were taking decapitation head shots one sweet day when a buddy missed his lead and blew a hole straight through the breast of a big drake Redhead. Left the wings just barely tied together with its butt and neck and he was shooting 2-3/4" # 4's! 0_0 Distance helps, sometimes! LOL!
You just hit the bat before this video
I actually use 6 shot for big ducks a lot I kill a lot more ducks
At what range?
Shame !!!
Nooo dont shoot gooses and ducks :(