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1 1/16 Brit 6's gives essentially the same pellet count as 1 1/4 oz American 6's. It's an excellent pheasant load, over good dogs. In a light 12, I usually back it with a 1 1/8 oz reload of American 6's in the tighter barrel, about the same as Steve's 1 1/16 oz formula.
I think the best patterning 12ga standard factory load I ever used was the old Super Pigeon formula: 3 1/4 DE, 1 1/4 oz, about 1220 fps. Hard to find in 6 shot these days in a good quality shell, unfortunately. I did pattern some Federal Flyers against both the hotter 3 3/4 DE (1330 fps) loads, and also against the really hot new stuff. The 1220 fps loads showed a slight advantage over the 1330 fps, and a greater one over the really fast loads. I seldom shoot anything that heavy, but that's what I would look for if I were buying off the shelf ammo.
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WW209, 26 gr. HERCO, SP-12, 1 1/4oz BPI nickel #5, once fired STS case.
You gonna kill pheasants, or you gonna mess around?
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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I am still working on my stash of 1-1/4oz of S&B No 6s. Sometimes I'll stick a No 5 in the left barrel for the long shots.
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Hey Guys,
My original post was an attempt at humor after the board had its extended down time but it appears that these types of questions- despite being held in general disdain- do evoke a strong response. Truth be told, I have been shooting 3 inch, 1 Ľ oz of buffered 6s and 5s (copper plated Federals or nickel plated Fiocchis) out of my SKB/Weatherby 20 ga, 26” O/U for 20+ years. I initially began using these loads in a quest for “magnumitis” typical of an unmentored upland newbie. What I found was that I enjoyed a high rate of success shooting these out of a SK/IC combo of chokes at wild west Kansas roosters over my setter who was an absolute pheasant savant. Even with a limit of 4 birds/day, there were never enough trigger pulls in a day to make recoil an issue. My current setter has more modest abilities in pinning pheasants so I‘ve changed my choke combo to IC/MOD out of the same gun. I’m currently on a 9 for 9 streak of 1st barrel (IC) kills. The general consensus has always been that 1 oz is all that is necessary for pheasants and that a 1 oz load throws superior patterns out of a 20 bore. This well may be true but I’m sticking with my tried and true loads in keeping with the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” adage. Out of my new Rizzini Round Body EL, I intend to use the same Federal and Fiocchi shells but in 1 oz loads so I don’t subject the gun to the potentially damaging effects of heavy recoil. I do appreciate the variety of responses to my whimsical inquiry.
ratt
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