Re: # 2 Steel shot
[Re: matt]
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03/30/21 12:02 AM
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Well might have to take up goose hunting. How would it work for things like coyote and fox. # 2 is large as we are allowed to use at night here. Don't use steel #2 for coyote/fox.
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Re: # 2 Steel shot
[Re: matt]
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03/30/21 12:10 AM
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As someone stated , OP says he doesn't hunt waterfowl .
So, that out the way, I found myself using steel a lot calling predators in situations where it was either a waterfowl hunt merging into a predator hunt or there were some restrictions ( shotgun only AND non-tox only) on public land .
Works really great on cats and raccoon , leaves a little bit to be desired on coyotes . Can be done , of course , just have to be much closer than I would normally give them when using lead .
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Re: # 2 Steel shot
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If you cant kill geese with #2 3 1/2 inch loads,,you either need to learn how to shoot,,or how to hunt geese.I can teach you both,,,,$100 an hour,,you supply the shells.Will be money well spent for you.p:s: I kill a mountain of geese each year,,and my average on the skeet range for the year is 49 out of 50 birds.Few years back I would shoot 1,000 rounds a week.I reload by the five gallon bucket load.
We can always count on the chest beaters to show up whenever there's a shotgun load question. Doesn't matter how irrelevant, they find some way to make it about them and how "great" they are.
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Re: # 2 Steel shot
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If you cant kill geese with #2 3 1/2 inch loads,,you either need to learn how to shoot,,or how to hunt geese.I can teach you both,,,,$100 an hour,,you supply the shells.Will be money well spent for you.p:s: I kill a mountain of geese each year,,and my average on the skeet range for the year is 49 out of 50 birds.Few years back I would shoot 1,000 rounds a week.I reload by the five gallon bucket load.
We can always count on the chest beaters to show up whenever there's a shotgun load question. Doesn't matter how irrelevant, they find some way to make it about them and how "great" they are. Not chest beating.Just a fact that if you cant kill geese with a magnum load of #2,,,then you must be sky busting or something.
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Re: # 2 Steel shot
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We hunt over decoys but they will still reach out and touch them when I need to. If your an exceptional shot like I am that is. Carefull,,someones gonna call you a chest beater. I say,,if you can do it,,then it aint bragging.
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Re: # 2 Steel shot
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We hunt over decoys but they will still reach out and touch them when I need to. If your an exceptional shot like I am that is. Carefull,,someones gonna call you a chest beater. I say,,if you can do it,,then it aint bragging. Then it must be bragging. LOL I tell other people in the blind "I always soot better in a group"
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Re: # 2 Steel shot
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03/31/21 09:46 AM
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Steel sucks! It slows down too quick, and to have knock down power at distance you need larger shot to retain energy. When I hunt with steel, I'm a fan of the 4 B's of waterfowling "Big Balls Break Bones!" I use #2 or BB's for ducks, and T's for geese. And I like to push it fast too when using steel. I much prefer HW-13 or TSS for waterfowl. It kills them with less cripples, meaning less follow up shots. For instance, hunting large geese in Northern IL this past December, the geese were hanging up at 70+ yards. The guide tried to get them to commit, but hey that's hunting. I'm shooting HW13 and TSS I started pass shooting geese at remarkable distances stone cold dead. Where the #2's and BB's were bouncing off the birds.
As for other animals, I can't count the number of yotes, coons, & beaver I've peeled out with steel shot just below the hide. I usually scrape it off, and reload it.
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Re: # 2 Steel shot
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03/31/21 09:58 AM
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We hunt over decoys but they will still reach out and touch them when I need to. If your an exceptional shot like I am that is. Carefull,,someones gonna call you a chest beater. I say,,if you can do it,,then it aint bragging. It's still bragging if you can do it. Makes you a braggart if it's not relevant to the topic. Prowess on the skeet field isn't relative to killing coyotes with steel shot.
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Re: # 2 Steel shot
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It is relevent to the topic.If you suck at shooting,,,then the load doesn't matter at all.
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Re: # 2 Steel shot
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The online braggarts mantra: "I'm not bragging, just stating fact!!!!!"
Jelous folks mantra "Them guys keep bragging"Your like the homely fat chicks that cry about Playboy Magazine exploiting women.Hahaaaa
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