I was in an area gun shop yesterday and found 2 older boxes of Fed HW 6's. These were the 10 packs with flitecontrol wad, 3" 1-5/8 0z. They were marked $25.99. Seemed like a good deal, what do you think?
thats good deal; those hvwt #6s would hit like a freight train!
Quote from: Gobblez on January 17, 2013, 05:23:55 PM
I was in an area gun shop yesterday and found 2 older boxes of Fed HW 6's. These were the 10 packs with flitecontrol wad, 3" 1-5/8 0z. They were marked $25.99. Seemed like a good deal, what do you think?
That's a low price by current standards. I've shot a lot of those shells. They are quite different from the #7 shot shells however.
Thanks,
Clark
Quote from: allaboutshooting on January 17, 2013, 07:18:36 PM
Quote from: Gobblez on January 17, 2013, 05:23:55 PM
I was in an area gun shop yesterday and found 2 older boxes of Fed HW 6's. These were the 10 packs with flitecontrol wad, 3" 1-5/8 0z. They were marked $25.99. Seemed like a good deal, what do you think?
That's a low price by current standards. I've shot a lot of those shells. They are quite different from the #7 shot shells however.
Thanks,
Clark
Clark,
Do they not pattern as well as the 7's?
Quote from: chatterbox on January 17, 2013, 07:22:47 PM
Quote from: allaboutshooting on January 17, 2013, 07:18:36 PM
Quote from: Gobblez on January 17, 2013, 05:23:55 PM
I was in an area gun shop yesterday and found 2 older boxes of Fed HW 6's. These were the 10 packs with flitecontrol wad, 3" 1-5/8 0z. They were marked $25.99. Seemed like a good deal, what do you think?
That's a low price by current standards. I've shot a lot of those shells. They are quite different from the #7 shot shells however.
Thanks,
Clark
Clark,
Do they not pattern as well as the 7's?
It's much more difficult to shape that shot charge. The #7 shot shells seem to conform to the interior dimensions of chokes more easily. The #6 shot shells are less forgiving.
Thanks,
Clark
Quote from: allaboutshooting on January 17, 2013, 07:26:14 PM
Quote from: chatterbox on January 17, 2013, 07:22:47 PM
Quote from: allaboutshooting on January 17, 2013, 07:18:36 PM
Quote from: Gobblez on January 17, 2013, 05:23:55 PM
I was in an area gun shop yesterday and found 2 older boxes of Fed HW 6's. These were the 10 packs with flitecontrol wad, 3" 1-5/8 0z. They were marked $25.99. Seemed like a good deal, what do you think?
That's a low price by current standards. I've shot a lot of those shells. They are quite different from the #7 shot shells however.
Thanks,
Clark
Clark,
Do they not pattern as well as the 7's?
It's much more difficult to shape that shot charge. The #7 shot shells seem to conform to the interior dimensions of chokes more easily. The #6 shot shells are less forgiving.
Thanks,
Clark
Thanks for the explanation, Clark!
You're welcome.
Thanks,
Clark
I've had excellent results with Heavyweight 5s and 7s but only mediocre results with the 6s.
Others I've talked to have had similar results.
I am running the 6's this year in my 20 gauge. The HWT 6's should definitely be a wrecking ball if you can get them to pattern. I would start with a non ported choke. Probably a Trulock.
That's a great price on the 6s. With regards to patterns and performance, there is no reason to shoot anything in HW larger than 7s, except legality in the misguided states that allow no shot size smaller than 6. The HW 7s have more than enough energy to kill turkeys to ridiculous ranges. Anything larger than 7 actually decreases your effective range due to decreased pattern density.
Thanks guys! I shoot hevi 7's, but was thinking for that price they may make a good backup. Mike
Are you going to give them a try? I would like to see the results.
Quote from: dirt road ninja on January 18, 2013, 01:49:25 PM
Are you going to give them a try? I would like to see the results.
I am going to give them a try. I've got a non ported x full tube and we'll see how they do.
See, now I had very good results with the 3.5" HW 6's in 4 of my 835's through an HS Undertaker hs choke. Patterned really well for me in that combo. Stuff absolutely FLATTENED some gobblers at ranges I refuse to discuss on here... Never tried it through the other ones as it didn't exist when I owned the other them.
:OGturkeyhead: I'm knot trying too change the topic ,a hunting buddy shot a hog at 72yrds , walk it off , and it had 6 pellets , that's with a stock 835 turkey choke non ported , That was impressive ..
Just a heads up outdoors...no discussions of ANY shots over 40 yards on these boards. That's why you didn't see a distance in my last post. I like it here and want to stay here so I follow the owners' wishes.
Not to bring up any sore subjects , but it was mentioned , so I will let you all know I never did have any rules on long shots here till about a year ago , when I noticed it was getting a bit out of control on the forum -
The long standing acceptable industry standard for responsible turkey shooting is 40 yards ,and most people are fine with that , it doesn't offend anyone , and causes no issues ever - The official sanctioned NWTF shoots are at 40 yards , that contest was designed to promote more ethical and clean kills , and the same goes for all our shotguns forums , as responsible hunters we want to encourage each other to cleanly kill their game, thats the purpose of the shotguns forums -you guys do a great job helping each other attain that goal - I dont know where to draw the line , 40 is the long standing standard, so there we have it - any further than that then keep it to PMs or out of plain sight and all should be good
I have no wish to be the longshot police of the forum - I am quite easy going , everyone has taken a shot {including me} paced it off , and was wrong about the yardage , we are humans { not cyborgs with rangefinders built into in our heads}we make errors , we also here take time and effort to have some gear that will compensate have we ever do our human thing -
--Shannon :icon_thumright: