20 gauge lead load

[Smallfry]

Why is it that you can find all kinds of tss loads for a twenty gauge of an ounce and a half or more, but it's so difficult to find lead 6's in anything more than an ounce and a quarter? Do the larger payloads of lead not not pattern well?

[Dtrkyman]

They don't fit in the shell and I'm guessing pressure gets too high with lead?

Someone has a new load out with a little more shot but I can't remember who, I saw a single pattern and it wasn't good!

Verdict might have the new lead load?


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[Smallfry]

Yes, verdict has an ounce and a half load of fives. I bought a few boxes so far I haven't been able to find the right choke to get a tight pattern. Windy Hill offers a load of sixes in an ounce and 7/16 I haven't gotten those yet to try to pattern them. But they're just aren't many options out there that I have been able to find.

[patternfreak]

1.5oz of lead fits like a glove in 20ga loads. I have no clue why there aren't more loads out there. I plan to send one out for testing in my next shipment to Precision.

This is 1.5oz of lead with 15 grains of Mix 47 buffer. Not a single pellet above the wad, easy fold crimp. Should pattern great with the full wad containment.

1.5oz of 6's has basically the same pellet count as 2oz of 5's. If you can commit to a 40 yard max range this should be a fantastic 20ga turkey load.

Also working on 1-5/8oz or 1-3/4oz in a roll crimp for 16ga...

[Dtrkyman]

Verdict are like 5 bux a shell, bit crazy for a lead load and the patterns I saw were trash.

Nice work pattern freak, not sure I understand the 5s in lead 20ga loads that seem so common? I doubt any lead 20ga load will be good past 40 so 6s make more sense to me.

Pressures seem to be higher in lead loads so maybe that is the limiting factor, will be interesting to see your results!

I think if TSS pricing stays as high as it is you will start seeing more options.

[patternfreak]

I agree, I think you need 300+ pellets in a turkey shell to be able to have sufficient pattern density at those longer ranges, like 40 yards.

1.5oz of #5's is 255 pellets. Not enough for me personally.

1.5oz of #6's is 337 pellets. Much better.

The Verdict patterns you saw were probably bad because they were #5's...maybe not because it's a bad load. I'd try again with 6's and I'd bet the results will be much better.

[Dtrkyman]

Agreed^^^

[kytrkyhntr]

i for one would LOVE to see 1.5oz #6 turkey loads for 20 gauge.