Heavi Shot

[Glen Livet]

I used Heavi Shot for the first time today. Freaking awesome! I couldn't believe some of the ducks I killed. I haven't folded up ducks like that ever (didn't hunt in the lead days). Pretty expensive, but I'll use more next year. Heck, I shot 9 times and killed 6 ducks. In the lean years, I really think it is the way to go.

[jdphish]

I know this has been discussed but I am glad to see....................

Another convert........Like myself. I ran out of hevi shot last weekend and have shot steel this week.

Wounded most of the ducks I shot this week and wasn't able to find some of them......I hated that.

I am a believer too.

jdphish

[missed mallards]

anything is better than steel shot. shot one drake 3 time's today and it still flew off. made me sick. i only wish i could afford the stuff. it's a little pricy for me being i don't hit every duck that come's by. is it the closes to lead with all of the brands' out there?

[Glen Livet]

Missed Mallards:

They sell it as better than lead. I saw a video of of them shooting steel, lead and heavi shot at a hanging street sign. The steel made the sign swing. The lead pushed the swing back. The h.s. blew it off the hanger.

Try 10 shells next year. Select your shots. You'll see.

[big gumbo]

It is great in the hands of experienced shooters, giving them knock down potential at 50 yards out on one shot, but it also encourages the weekend wannabie duck hunters into thinking they can knock anything down from 100 yards away.

Heres how you can tell a goober from someone in the know, I heard bellyaching and moaning at the launches that all the wally worlds had sold out, all the while there had been Hevy Shot packaged for turkey season all over the place up here since a week after Christmas, and their not knowing its the same stuff in different packaging tickles me.

Your right about the steel shot though, I shot the snot out of a greenhead two weeks ago knocked it back three feet, hit it again and feathers went everywhere and on the third shot finally knocked it down on the water then it took two kill shots to keep the thing from diving and swimming off, that was with 3in winchester drylocks #3s. The plummage on the underside of this duck had to be at least an inch and a half thick, we nicknamed it flak jacket.

[Double R 2]

I saw that video too and use it each and every time we shoot road signs - it's awesome

I like it too, 2-3/4 inch sixes is plenty over decoys....course it's been said by at least 2 folks on here that if you shoot hevishot you're compensating for not being a good enough shot or hunter to kill birds with steel!:lol: I guess I'm just another duck killer wannabe

[Anatidae]

One of those had to be 'Duckmen'......

That's been so long ago I don't remember WHAT I said, but I'm sure it wasn't nice.........

I can only afford to shoot Hevi-shot at cripples

[Spottail Chaser]

I know you are talking about Heavishot, but have you tried Kent Impact? The density is almost identical to lead and it deforms(something Heavishot won't do). I shot Heavishot some last season and discovered one major shortcoming. At close range it is like shooting a rifle. It patterns very tightly. It was good at longer range, but most of my shots that day were 20 yards or closer and 3" #2's were smacking them down dead and Heavishot was missing. I had good success with steel this season also. I killed ducks out to 40 yards without trouble. It was probably luck, but it sure made me question spending more than $1.50 a shell when $10 Kent Steel was working. Just my $0.02 worth.

[Delta Duck]

Already started buying my hevi for next season! It want be long just 10 more months!

[dukbum]

hevi-shot made a beliver out of me this year too

[bigwater]

uhhhh............ iron grip speak up please son!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i've seen him smoke plenty of dux's booty's shootin that stuff....

[feedcall]

The Kent Impact seems to be just as effective. I shot them both this year. Finished the season Sunday morning with a 50 yard shot on the last Greenhead in the limit. It was the fourth Greenhead that folded for me that morning. The stuff works, and I don't care what anyone says it would have taken 15 steel shells to do what about 6 or 7 Kent Impact shells can do.

[velcro]

I know I've mentioned it before, but for you hevi-shot people, try using 2 3/4" #7 1/2's. You can easily shoot to 45 yards on mallards with a imp cyl choke and have numerous pellets in the pattern. I use #6's for snows and specks. I'm trying to find some #9's for timber hunting and early teal season with a skeet choke. That should be a good shell out to 30 yards or so. If I can find some I'll let you know.

[GulfCoast]

Pick your shots, pattern your gun and choke and Hevi Shot is great stuff. It will not suddenly make the typical duck hunter who shoots 7 shells for every duck brought to hand (per studies from the feds) into Annie Oakley.

I buy the #5 Turkey loads on sale at Wal-Mart. It is the same stuff as the waterfowl loads.

[iron grip]

Velcro,
Keep us updated on that I shot some 2&3/4 #6 (is the smallest I could find) in timber lately and agree that is all you need in there mabey less. Where did you find the #7 1/2? I haven't seen that before wish I had though could've used some in a hole we just hunted. Let me know if you find the #9's.

Hevi-shot haters,
Try it you'll like it, unless you just fling shot into the air without regard, then try some sporting clay ranges. My thoughts on the subject are as follows. Yes I can kill ducks with almost any waterfowl load out there, but I've never seen a bird downed by a center mass hit with Hevi swim off and rarely do I see one even do the death dance. It kills instantly nearly everytime. I have whacked many a duck on the butt of my gun shot with other ammo and consider the Hevi to be the more "humane" way to go about bagging my quarry. And Hell, gas is close enough to two bucks a gallon now so if your gonna spend it to get there might as well not skimp yourself by letting game get away unless it hasn't been hard for everyone to fill a limit of ducks this year. My parties have been on "limit hunts" four times this year and two of them were finally scratched down with a very late morning single

Spot tail chaser,
Have you had any misfires with the Impact?
I bought a box to try this year to compare. The shells that shot did well, however it was only three (that shot)!!! SEVEN did not shoot!!! I don't think I've had seven shells misfire in all the twenty years I've been duck hunting combined. WTF????