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You might want to try RST's pheasant load: 1 1/4 oz 5 or 6, 1200 fps. Price listed on my sheet is $115/flat. Even with shipping, that'd be less than buying 10 boxes of the premium lead pheasant loads . . . at 14-1500 fps. [/quote]
Larry,
I like & use RST shells but I've never shot any of their 1200 fps 1 1/4 oz pheasant loads. I would certainly prefer those to a 1 1/16 oz or heavier load @ 1450 fps. In a 6 3/4 lb gun the calculated recoil is 20.2 ft lbs compared to 21.3 ft lbs for the faster 1 1/16 ox load & I would much prefer the increase in pattern density to the extra velocity for approximately the same amount of recoil.
I used to shoot the old Winchester 3 1/4 DE 1 1/4 oz Pigeon load with #5 shot for pheasant. I think those were listed as 1220 fps if I remember correctly & they worked well but I wasn't concerned about pressure in the guns I was using at that time.
