Ammo

[Researcher]

What upland game needs such a load?

[ROMAC]

Ouch!

[Jeff S]

When hunting pheasants in South Dakota, I use a 20 ga. Loaded with #7’s from RST. However, I’m sure that there are guys out there using that heavy stuff. As Daryl always says, “just shoot them in the head”.

[Jim Cloninger]

Those look more like duck loads before lead was banned.

[vaturkey]

Bazooka loads. I'm waiting for the day when they come out with a pheasant load with a velocity of 2000 fps made with TSS. Shoot them at 100 yards.

PS. Wonder if pheasants are somehow tougher now then they have been for say the last 50 years of so.

[67galaxie]

Sounds like something Mr Olin would try. Just kidding. That is nuts to me.

[DarylC]

Sad thing is if you follow some of the other shooting/hunting websites, this is what they tell you need to kill wild pheasants. And yes, I did say shoot them in the head. The old adage is "shoot them where they eat, not where they sh**". It's not hard to do but it takes practice. I've hunted with a group that loved 4's and 5's, they were piss poor shots and destroyed a lot of good breast meat.

Every year on my way out to SD to hunt pheasants I would stop in the Cabela's in Mitchell, SD and invariably there would be some nimrod with his cart filled with new hunting clothes, boots, etc. and a flat of those 1 1/4 or 1 3/8oz. loads in either 4's or 5's. I'd casually ask him "how big are these birds out here?" His reply was that was what the outfitter told him to bring.

[Silvers]

I agree, those short magnums are totally unnecessary on pheasants as shown on the box. I wouldn't be surprised to learn the box designer is a recent art grad who probably doesn't hunt. Nonetheless, 4-shot is the largest that can be used legally for turkeys here in PA and two of those baby Magnums would be nice to have loaded in a 2-3/4 or 3-inch Super-Fox, LC Smith Long Range, etc. Yeah I know a lot of modern fellas like smaller "super shot" and presumably go for the head and I suppose that works if the shot presentation is right, but I'll stick with the old time recipe of lead 4's or better yet 2's for turkeys, foxes and similar size quarry. frank

[ROMAC]

Frank, I guess that makes you the "Robert Ruark" of shot shell selection for turkey and foxes LOL!!

"Use Enough Pellet"

[Jim Cloninger]

Well, a Superfox is "enough gun".

[Foxnut]

I didn’t know pterodactyl were in season!!!!

[csthraen]

Having grown up in SD back in the 50-70s #5 were the right tool for late season snow on the ground birds. Most flushes (sans poochies) in December started at 30 yards in 20 mph winds. Pre-steel days always included a pocket of #4 for the occasional jumped mallard still hanging about before ice-up. Today, with as many pen raised birds salted in with the native ones, #6 is as large as one requires for the last of the season bird. 7 1/2 in December winds is a winged and lost bird for certain. Today in Ohio, on preserve birds accompanied by my lovely Brits, it is #7. I still carry a #6 or two for very late season thin cover run and flush wiley P bird.