20ga Federal 3" HW 7's--870---SSX

[darron]

lasered 40 yards----200 hits in a 10" circle Beats the 150's the hevi shot was throwing

[chipper]

    awesome man!!!!!!!!!!

[savduck]

Dang, thats pretty strong. Mine is averaging in the low 140s with fed 7s at 40.

[Fullfan]

Nice work, you guys are costing me a bunch of money and I wish you all would stop posting this stuff.... lol

[darron]

I thought the hevishot 7's shot well until I tried the fed HW 7's. I looked at my #'s last year and I was getting 156 with hevi-13 7's and today I put up 200. an extra 44 pellets in a 10" circle. I'll take it!

[surehuntsalot]

 

[Woodsman4God]

Nice pattern

[goblr77]

Dang, thats pretty strong. Mine is averaging in the low 140s with fed 7s at 40.

That's all mine is putting up. Good enough to do the job though.

[st8tman]

Just finished my son's 1187 Compact (20) yesterday with the SSX and Federal HW 7's. Averaged 140's over 6 shots.(Thanks, CLARK) Good even pattern. Plenty tight for him, as the 20" was well defined as well. Much, Much better than Rem X Full(.570) or Trulock .585 in my gun. Boy do those HV's pack a punch downrange...felt like a 2 3/4" 12 Magnum or a low end 3" 12 Mag. Da-Da will probably end up toting on some mornings! Good luck to all this season!

[darron]

Darron, what is your average with that gun, will it hold those high numbers consistently over about 10 shots?

Now that I don't know. With the cost of these shells I will never find out. I was shooting hevi 7's and getting in the 140s and 150s with that combo which is a great pattern. However, I caught the HW 7's for a decent price and picked up two boxes. I ran one through my deep cleaned barrel sporting the SSX and you see the pattern.

From what I have read on here the ssx likes to be clean, so if I had to go out on a limb no....it probably wouldn't. However, I clean by gun between hunts so it shouldn't matter.

[jkbow]

Great Pattern Darron,  I also have a Remington 20 g 870 w a 26" barrel.  The federal Heavyweights have given me fits with every choke and 2 different Barrel lengths.  I had one box of Federal HW 7 that shot 4 patterns in the 160s...and one of the 5 shot an 87 in a 10in circle at a measured 40.  The wad came apart midway to the target on the "87".  I have shot HW 7s out of 8-10 boxes..with atleast 5 different lot #s  I have yet to reach 160 again..mostly 120ish.  That alone concerns me......but it is infact an honest test.  BTW I have tryed this with polished and unpolished 870s....both 26 and 21" barrels.  I have used the following chokes...Sumtoy 562-5, 562-3, Pure Gold Temptest 570, Jellyhead 570, RSF, Undertaker, and the SSX.  The RSF, and SSX shot the 160s from the "good" box.  But again not repeateable for me.  BTW I have chatted with both William and Clarke about these results.....for what thats worth.  Also I run a boresnake thru between shots.  Hope this info helps....good luck hunting.  BTW if it matters my wifes 21 in 870 is producing 170s with the SSX and Hevi 13 - 7s.  I ended up shooting the pure gold 570 and nitro MW 4-5-6-7.