Fed (pre flight control) 3/2/7.5's

[Longshanks]

Anyone have any experience with these shells? Buddy of mine gave me two boxes. Gonna run em through my Rem 870/ kicks .655. I have no doubt its gonna turn some serious patterns but just wondering about penetration/ lethality at 30-40yds. My guess is it would be about like shooting 8.5 or 9's in Hevi 13.

[stinkpickle]

Yep...that's what I shoot.  More specifically, that's what I USED TO shoot before Federal quit making them.  They seemed drop birds just fine out to 40 yards...and maybe one or two a hair beyond that.   

[drenalinld]

I loved them and killed quite a few birds with them, but never shot past about 35 yards.

[Longshanks]

Anyone have any experience with these shells? Buddy of mine gave me two boxes. Gonna run em through my Rem 870/ kicks .655. I have no doubt its gonna turn some serious patterns but just wondering about penetration/ lethality at 30-40yds. My guess is it would be about like shooting 8.5 or 9's in Hevi 13.

I use 1.25" of gel penetration as a min. for turkey lethality. KPY ballistics program shows that load to have that penetration to 35 yds. At 40 yds, it shows 1.11" of penetration.

Interesting..I was thinking they would have to loose their punch down range.. Thanks for the information.Think I will stick with 5's, 6's in Pb.