Favorite Duck load?

[Jeff]

lead 5's

[hillhunter]

I shot two cases of the black cloud this year. Cleaned my gun once during the middle, and that was because of hunting in the rain one day. My buddies finally started using them half way through the season, but they used the 3" shells and said they could tell a difference between them and the Win. experts. I wouldn't hesitate one second on buying them next year.

[blgros1]

+1 and if you can get em in 3" thats the tit's.

lead 5's

[CodyKennels]

#2 Drylocs for me, it seems to fold em' up pretty good(ducks & geese)

[torch]

2 3/4 #5's

[DeadDuck30]

BR549 You should not have to shoot ducks at 50 or 60 yards.

[blgros1]

what you talking about willis, anything closer than that is a drop in the bucket

BR549 You should not have to shoot ducks at 50 or 60 yards.

[teul2]

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Just kidding wingman!

[hntrpat1]

Them fiocchi turkey thunders in 3 1/2 in 2 1/4oz is BA

[cheeko]

Kent 3in #4s fast steel.

[Jeff]

Joel, you are the bomb!! We need to make a hunt together with that lay out. We'll even invite Rob along

My dad still has four cases of those and says when they tell him he has a short time left on this earth hes moving to a pit blind in a rice field and shooting every last round!

or
Just kidding wingman!

[Bababooey]

If you are cleaning your gun after every days hunt, then what does it matter how dirty the powder is?

Every round that I shot this year was Black Cloud and I have yet to clean my SBE II. I normally clean it just prior to the beginning of duck season, so I am sure that is how it will be this year as well.

That is not the only ammo I shoot, just all I shot this year since I have some much of it. I also have two cases of 3 /12" #2, 1 9/16oz Fasteel, I just never got around to shooting them with so few ducks this year.

Well, for starters, it usually takes me about 10 minutes to thoroughly clean my SBE II. With the black cloud ammo it was double that at least. Now if I noticed a lot less cripples or that they had better knock down than the Fiocchi's I shot this year then I would be glad to shoot them and spend the extra time cleaning my gun. But I did not see a single advantage to shooting black cloud ammo other than the box looked cool and Phil endorses them.

Let me try it another way, if you had two different duck holes. One of them was 5 minutes from the camp, you could put decoys out in 5 minutes and had a super comfortable blind in it. The other was a 20 minute 4 wheeler ride followed by a 1/2 mile walk through tit deep water and had no blind. You saw and killed the exact amount of ducks out of each blind. Would you choose to hunt blind one or two?

[TeamCGO]

Have used alot of Kent 3.5" #3 but this year I switched to 3.5" #6 Hevi-Shot.

The Hevi's really smacked the belly scratchin greenheads and the canadas.

[litlhitch]

I bought a case of Black Cloud 3" #2 and liked them a lot. They are pretty dirty shell to shoot but the pattern is very good at thirty yards with an improved choke.

Hell at 30 yards anything will pattern with an improved cyl! Move it on out to 50 and 60 and see what you got! I can't stand em. Absolutely the dirtiest ammo I've ever seen.

Aint no point in taking 50 - 60 yard shots anyway. Call em in to 25-30 yards..that should be your goal..anybody could get shots at ducks 50-60 yards away

I wish they would restrict shell size to 2 3/4"...3 1/2" shells are the worst thing ever invented!

[teul2]

My dad still has four cases of those and says when they tell him he has a short time left on this earth hes moving to a pit blind in a rice field and shooting every last round!

That sounds like a plan.