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Title: Do you hold out or go all in?
Post by: tha bugman on June 07, 2017, 10:54:10 AM
With the price of TSS shells, Nitro, etc.  Do you just put one in the chamber and back it up with cheaper lead loads or do you fill your gun to capacity with the expensive stuff?
Title: Re: Do you hold out or go all in?
Post by: davisd9 on June 07, 2017, 11:09:11 AM
I load TSS and every shell in my gun is the same.  Usually back up shots are the more risky ones so why would I go with an inferior product?
Title: Do you hold out or go all in?
Post by: Happy on June 07, 2017, 11:43:20 AM
Use all the same shell.

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Post by: USMC0331 on June 07, 2017, 12:32:59 PM
Use all of the same.
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Post by: yelpaholic on June 07, 2017, 01:02:23 PM
all in...
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Post by: Bowguy on June 07, 2017, 01:44:33 PM
I'd use the same stuff though I use neither. Nitro will blow your barrel. TSS I've never used n the most popular sizes aren't legal where I hunt.
In lots of turks over lots of time I can't recall once or twice maybe needing a second shot. The cost shouldn't be a factor.  Keep em with the effective range and take only good shots. The killing is easy than.

Title: Re: Do you hold out or go all in?
Post by: decoykrvr on June 07, 2017, 05:19:39 PM
Shot shells, either TSS or Hevi-13's are the cheapest consumable component of my turkey season and I wouldn't even consider having an inferior shell in my gun in the all important "back-up" role.  I usually put a H-13, 7 in the chamber backed by H-13, 6's or  MagBlends in the magazine.  I have had a couple of times where a moving bird, or just bad shot placement on my part, knocked down a gobbler which got up, one time off and running, and the heavier larger shot "back-up" load knocked down and killed the bird.
Title: Re: Do you hold out or go all in?
Post by: Farmboy27 on June 07, 2017, 07:14:05 PM
K.I.S.S.  All the same. If you can afford to pattern the expensive stuff and afford the one in the barrel, then you can afford to put 2 more in the magazine.
Title: Re: Do you hold out or go all in?
Post by: Fieldturkey on June 07, 2017, 07:36:55 PM
Once yiu start loading tss you'll never shoot anything else
Title: Re: Do you hold out or go all in?
Post by: Spurs Up on June 07, 2017, 08:42:37 PM
Quote from: tha bugman on June 07, 2017, 10:54:10 AM
With the price of TSS shells, Nitro, etc.  Do you just put one in the chamber and back it up with cheaper lead loads or do you fill your gun to capacity with the expensive stuff?

All in. Loaded to the gills.

It's one of those things that "if you have to ask the price..."

That said, let a coyote or the like stroll by and I'm reaching in my vest for a throw-down LB.
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Post by: BandedSpur on June 08, 2017, 08:31:30 AM
I shoot an O/U so no magazine, but both barrels contain the good stuff.
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Post by: Ozarks Hillbilly on June 08, 2017, 12:46:06 PM
I'm all in
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Post by: howl on June 08, 2017, 05:17:19 PM
Single barrel .410 only holds one. So, yeah, I go all in!
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Post by: the Ward on June 08, 2017, 05:34:45 PM
All in. Whatever shells I patterned the gun/choke with gets loaded up. No surprises that way.
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Post by: Gobble! on June 09, 2017, 03:24:35 PM
Quote from: davisd9 on June 07, 2017, 11:09:11 AM
I load TSS and every shell in my gun is the same.  Usually back up shots are the more risky ones so why would I go with an inferior product?

x2. It's only money, they make it everyday.
Title: Re: Do you hold out or go all in?
Post by: Tom Foolery on June 10, 2017, 08:40:21 PM

Federal HW's and H13 here but all in.  I don't even carry lead loads with me.