New Turkey Loads for 2016

[Lucky Clucker]

It is still lead, sure birds will be killed with it, but it is not hevi shot, and I suspect a lot of cripples will be the results of theses shells, like the 3rd degrees from federal,keep the range inside 40 yards and they should do well.

[mikejd]

Great! Just what I need. There goes another few weeks pay playing at the range. Glad I have about 30 chokes to test.

Thanks for the info Clark.

[allaboutshooting]

As with any other shell, choke or gun, only range time will tell us how they perform. Keeping our shots at 40 yards or under, knowing our equipment and enjoying the hunt, help us remember exactly why it is we love this sport so much.

It's good to see companies introducing new shotshell products again. Lead as well as tungsten-based shells offer us alternatives and choices in what we shoot and how much we spend to do that.

We're seeing 2 different approaches to reducing the malformation of the lead shot upon setback, resin and the Speedball, Mixed size shot loads have been around for a while but with the 3rd Degree shells and now the Triple Beard we're seeing something a little different.

Thanks,
Clark

[kdsberman]

Pretty exciting, thanks for sharing. There will be a few bruised shoulders this year patterning this stuff.  Interested in the numbers.


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[turkeywhisperer935]

Thanks for the info Clark. I don't understand why some of these guys have a issue with hevi's prices. Before I started shooting them I had to ordernitros and they were some what more expensive than them. I get close to the same results from hevi and switched. Hevi's prices are as competitive to other lead alternative loads and it appears this new load will be price competitive also. I'd love to know their deal, ammo is just costly period nowdays so to me don't blame them.

[owlhoot]

What would have been interesting is that they could have put that amount or more of the hevi 7's in instead of lead 7's. With the popularity of their hevi 7 loads it would have made since.
Ammo makers ?? Who knows how they come to their decisions.

[mike103]

They will sell a bunch mainly cause the box looks cool.

Ain't that the truth.

[BandedSpur]

Speedball waterfowl loads are supposed to have a much thicker copper plating on the  shot (on the steel shot).

Claiming to increase the density, did they do this to the lead shot?

If so does this work and by how much?

No! Lead is much more dense than copper. Even standard copper plated shot is less dense than pure or alloyed lead shot.