I'm using 1.25 oz of #5s that I reload with either Blue Dot or Longshot. They are work supremely well on pheasants and mallards out as far as I want to shoot. In a pinch, they will also work on Giants in tight, but that isn't something I would make a habit of.

The Modified barrel took down mallards at a bit over 30 yds easily. Pheasants further than that often.

Sadly, the gun is being restocked in Colorado by SKB after I took a bad fall with it while pheasant hunting last winter on frozen marsh. I had bad knee issues which ultimately cost me big time. But the knees are fixed and in rehab, just like the gun, so it will be back out there again this year. And the bird populations are definitely looking up.





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BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)

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