whay do hevi-7's shoot so well in so many guns?

[Marc_Stokeld]

last season i resumed turkey hunting after a 15 year layoff. i hunted with my old standard - 2 ounces of copper-coated #4's, 12 ga 3". so i am new to all of the advancements in the ammo field. everyone seems to have great patterns that their gun threw of hevi-7's. they sure do perform well in the 3 guns of mine that i patterned with them.

so as a graduate engineer who loves to test almost anything, it boggles my mind why thre seems to be a "standard good pattern round" of hevi-7's. i sure cannot explain it or even come up with a poor theory!

thanks!

[Marc_Stokeld]

awe man, don't do that to me! i only put it in there because you have to do A TON of testing stuff in grad school. i have always been in management and sales.

hell, in college people would ask what was my major and never believed my answer. when i said engineering, they would laugh and say," yeah right! you are in foresty or something."

i never would come in out of the woods and wound being in school for a looong time. but i sure did kill a lot game. it was worth it my way.

[Marc_Stokeld]

i wasn't offended but laughed, so i put the winking face after it. no worries

all of those variables are in effect on every shell. for some reason the 7's kick butt pretty much across the board. even next to tss #7's, the hevi's win out in my gun. looking at the patterns side by sides makes my brain hurt!

[g8rvet]

Don't know, but the Hevi Shot 6s never did that well in my 870, with any of the 4 chokes I have (one of which is a Hevi Choke).  I still have 2 full boxes of the old Remington hevi #6 (with wax sealing the ends to keep the buffer in) and those are poison-my son has taken over my old 870, 26" barrel even though he has his own 870 28" that shoots just as good.  The Longbeards in the hevi choke are impressive with the #5s.  But you are right, lots of gun/choke combos seem to love them.

[maddog3355]

The hevi 7's are actually 7,8,9,10,11 shot.

[Cut N Run]

Those Hevi 7s  aren't as uniform in size and shape as one might hope, but they make up for it in hardness, which helps the pattern hold together.  I've seen plenty of Hevi 7 (& 6s too) pellets that are fused together and look like snowmen.  The extra kinetic energy those pellets carry absolutely blows them through a turkey's head in a big hurry, no matter what shape & size they are.

Jim

[BINK McCARTY]

Those Hevi 7s  aren't as uniform in size and shape as one might hope, but they make up for it in hardness, which helps the pattern hold together.  I've seen plenty of Hevi 7 (& 6s too) pellets that are fused together and look like snowmen.  The extra kinetic energy those pellets carry absolutely blows them through a turkey's head in a big hurry, no matter what shape & size they are.

Jim

That's what I was gonna say....every shell or ones picked out of a turkey,that I've seen look more like welding slag than shotgun pellets!!!! But make no mistake, they hit awful hard.