I know everyone else in the world is TSS but I'm one of the holdouts.
Cutting to the chase, I've been shooting longbeard XR for the last handful of years. Today I went out to pattern my gun and make sure all was well. It was...until I opened up the new box of XRs. My 40 yard pattern went from 80-100 pellets of 5 shot, in a 10" circle down to 38. That's the only one I counted but the next shot was just as abysmal. I then went back to 20 yards and I don't think I had 50 pellets in the circle compared to the 120+ or whatever I had just minutes before. It's like the new packaging came with a whole new load!
Anyway, just seeing if anyone else is experiencing the same thing. Whatever else they changed, besides packaging, my gun doesn't like it. Back to the federal grand slams! A very comparable pattern, the XR was just a hair tighter, again, until today.
Longbeards seem to have consistency issues, of course it's possibly the most popular 12ga turkey load so there is a lot of it in circulation.
Sorry I have no real answer for you but if you google it I would imagine it would be a common issue.
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Shake a shell, is the resin broken up in shell?
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Quote from: Dtrkyman on March 01, 2026, 08:47:19 PMLongbeards seem to have consistency issues, of course it's possibly the most popular 12ga turkey load so there is a lot of it in circulation.
Sorry I have no real answer for you but if you google it I would imagine it would be a common issue.
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Googling now, I just assumed it was a fairly new issue but potentially not.
Quote from: davisd9 on March 01, 2026, 08:49:36 PMShake a shell, is the resin broken up in shell?
I flat out don't know. But also go to Florida in two weeks. Flights, drew the tag, the whole nine yards. Big trip. I can't trust the shells on an in state hunt, let alone a hunt like this.
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Just some quick info for those looking. Just one day ago a guy posted this
(https://i.ibb.co/FqdyZDXw/IMG-0491.png) (https://ibb.co/S7ZMY3cn)
And this guy. I was using the 50 anniversary box.
https://youtu.be/ACW1hq0skPs?si=MWYgxX5CqNErNLqO