2014 Dove Season

[motoman]

$57 for 250 rounds of Estate dove loads, deal?

Sunflowers are about three and a half feet tall in my shooting spot. They're local but could have got my limit today. Lots of dove around Whitney.

[YALE]

I am with you on that; I have just been buying the good stuff since last season but I ordered 44lbs of nickle plated 7.5 shot this morning and will try to duplicate the factory hotrod stuff.



That sounds like a stout load. I'd like to research is. Can you post a part number?

I can. Federal also has the same shot size at 1.125oz at 1500fps.

[dee]

Unless you have a supply of good shot at a decent price hand loading shotgun shells is not cost effective. I have everything I need to load 20 and 12 but don't cause I can buy a flat of Remington Gun club for the same price or a few dollars less than when I reload. Then you have the Winchester AA promo where you can get $100 rebate for buying a certain amount that make it hard to beat loading 28 or 410 shells.

[svauto-erotic855]

Well, that's why I don't reload bird shot. Because my time is worth more than the hours on end it would take fiddling with shot and a turrent shotshell press. It's the only ammo I buy really.

I am with you on that; I have just been buying the good stuff since last season but I ordered 44lbs of nickle plated 7.5 shot this morning and will try to duplicate the factory hotrod stuff.

Remington makes some crazy #6 high-brass loads. It's 1.25oz at 1500fps. They actually do it in #6 and #4. It's nasty as fuck.

That sounds like a stout load. I'd like to research is. Can you post a part number?

[YALE]

Remington makes some crazy #6 high-brass loads. It's 1.25oz at 1500fps. They actually do it in #6 and #4. It's nasty as fuck.

[Cannon88]

I will shoot the cheapest ammo I can find for dove. For ducks I have to use steel, and even the cheap stuff isnt cheap anymore, so I spend a little extra for quality ammo.

[CJ]

That is one way of thinking but ask yourself this. What is your time worth?

Well, that's why I don't reload bird shot. Because my time is worth more than the hours on end it would take fiddling with shot and a turrent shotshell press. It's the only ammo I buy really.

[svauto-erotic855]

If they would let us keep more id get more serious. I think we should be able to keep say 100 birds vaccume sealed and frozen. Dove all year mmmmmm mmm.

You can keep more; just not in the same place. I have a freezer at my shop, office, and at home.

[YALE]

Shooting a friends reloads deffinatly pattern better and i get extra yardage. I still buy the cheapest crap i can buy and if they are flying good limit in a hour and go home.

If they would let us keep more id get more serious. I think we should be able to keep say 100 birds vaccume sealed and frozen. Dove all year mmmmmm mmm.

Buy farm raised pigeon. It even tastes better, because it hasn't been flying for weeks on end before you shoot it.

[motoman]

Dove all year mmmmmm mmm.

Yes!!!

[Sleeper]

Shooting a friends reloads deffinatly pattern better and i get extra yardage. I still buy the cheapest crap i can buy and if they are flying good limit in a hour and go home.

If they would let us keep more id get more serious. I think we should be able to keep say 100 birds vaccume sealed and frozen. Dove all year mmmmmm mmm.

[svauto-erotic855]

I have shot trucks full of the cheap shit also and was never unhappy about it until I decided to see how the stuff patterns. I spent 2 days in a field with all of my favorite shotguns and learned a bunch in the process. The engineer in me demands that I fuck with stuff to get the best results.

[motoman]

Don't buy cheap shells. I patterned all of them that I could get my hands on last year and will stick with $15 + per box loads or my own hand loads for the rest of my life based on what I saw. The El-cheapo Winchester 100 to a big box universal shell were the worst of the bunch; 30% patterns or slightly under that with a full choke at 35 meters in a 28" circle with dense spots all over the place. I got the same results from several different guns.

I'd shoot nothing but Fiocchi Golden Pheasant if they offered this load in 7.5 shot. These promise to be just as good; www.bandpusa.com.

Whatever works for you I guess, but I don't buy it. I've shot everything from the cheapest Federal, Rio, Winchester, and Remington game/target loads and have never had an issue. If I can nail clays and mini clays one after another with cheap shit, a dove won't be any different. If I miss it's because I'm too far behind it or under it, not because of the ammo.

[svauto-erotic855]

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That is one way of thinking but ask yourself this. What is your time worth? My free time is so limited that it doesn't make any sense to use it in a half ass way. I am sure that I could buy a live bird for what each shell cost me but shooting them on the fly is what makes it fun. It is also really fun to average less then 2 shells fired per bird killed; your hunting partners will think that you are a god.

[CJ]

Don't buy cheap shells. I patterned all of them that I could get my hands on last year and will stick with $15 + per box loads or my own hand loads for the rest of my life based on what I saw. The El-cheapo Winchester 100 to a big box universal shell were the worst of the bunch; 30% patterns or slightly under that with a full choke at 35 meters in a 28" circle with dense spots all over the place. I got the same results from several different guns.

I'm scared to even try. Truth is I don't really care. I get plenty of birds. I've considered throwing a ton of badass components (Win AA hulls, quality wads, hot shot, etc.) to see if it really equates to more birds, but truth is when I don't get a bird, it's probably because I missed it. All I really load is buckshot, because that means business.