Rocky Ridge Ammo

[slicksbeagles1]

Has anyone ever heard of and tried there ammo I saw they have a 20ga magnum 3" 2oz 9's tss

[Dtrkyman]

Never heard of them but I'm betting it kills on both ends!

That's a ton of shot to cram through a 20ga turkey choke!


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[YoungGobbler]

2oz on a 20 ga isn't it too much...? Even on 12 ga i feel like it's a lot... And what i mean by too much is that it's a heavy load, in my mind, it can't go very fast and not very far... But that's just in my mind...

[OJR]

Watched BCO pattern it last night. Too much sugar for a nickel in my opinion. It's going to pop the crap out of you. I like the 20 for the softer recoil and to push that 2oz of TSS it has to make a big bang.

[Stingray]

I looked at their website this morning, I'll stick with 1 5/8

[paboxcall]

I looked at their website this morning, I'll stick with 1 5/8

I'll stick with 1 3/8th oz of straight 8s.

[Browning4140]

I got the chance to try the 2oz load last week in a Remington 870 youth 20ga with a Sumtoy .562 and it throws a nasty pattern. 321 in a 10" at a laser measured 40yds. If you wear dentures you better double up on the fixodent because it kicks like a mule.

[Old Timer]

Blue Collar Outdoors is doing some testing with  these  loads on their  youtube  channel. I'll  stick with  my Apex 3inch 1 5/8 #8. Wonderful load for my 20ga.

[deadbuck]

I used to load 1 7/8 in a 20, and yes the recoil is noticeably more than 1 5/8.

[Gooserbat]

Seems like i played with an 1 7/8 20 load years ago and it was a lot on both ends. 

[Marc]

I feel like a lot of companies that are making TSS are pushing a far heavier payload than I would prefer in the 12 or 20 ga.

My understanding, is that the stuff is so dense, it does not take up much space...  I heard one company was making a 3" load, and then putting in filler...  Probably cause so many turkey hunters think you need at least a 3" load.

Steel is at a density of 7.8
Bismuth at 9.2
Lead at 11
Hevi-Shot at 12
TSS at 18.5

So lead is only about 60% as dense as TSS, and for the same size pellets you will have 40% less shot than a lead load would have.  So you need pellets that are 40% of the size of lead to have the same pellet count for a given payload.

A 2 oz payload of #7's in TSS will still have fewer pellets than a 1.5 oz payload of #7's in lead...  Granted those TSS will pattern tighter and carry much further than will lead...