Best Shells?

[Po Monkey Lounger]

Based upon some of the comments in this thread about shell performance and water, I get the impression that some of you guys must hunt ducks in a wetsuit, under water, breathing through a straw --- Rambo style.

With all the waterproof clothing, blind bags, dryboxes, hunting coats, etc available and possessed by many, it is hard to believe that you could possibly get your shells as wet as professed. But, I guess if you were hunting from a leaky boat, with no waterproof clothing, in a hurricane or monsoon, the shells could get a little damp. That is when it is time to fix the boat, buy some waterproof clothing, or head to the house.

Just because the drylock ads depict a guy leaving his shells in the bottom of a boat filled with a foot or two of water does not mean that this is a good practice --- a tad lazy if you ask me.

[Anatidae]

Yeah.........that's kinda what I thought too, Buff. But you expressed it so much 'nicer' than I did.

[Greenwoodfarmboy]

well as of my last years expirences dry-lok is good for most all duck hunting applications but in the late season when you start seeing call and decoy shy birds its time to go get some hevi-shot. The last day that I coculd hunt last year caught me and my buddies standing in the flood lands of a lake in Quito Ms. the buck brush was thick so that was our blinds and 2 of us killed limits while the other was one shy and I did with about as half as many shells because I was shooting hevi-shot and could take longer shots thatn my buddies shooting 3.5 Dry-Lok. Thats my 2 cents good luck this season.

GFB.

[hawkeye]

I am surprised to hear Remington Nitro Steel come up as FEW times as it has. Do you guys not like it, or too expensive, or bad experiences with it or what? I personally love the stuff. And Kent runs a close second. Hey Duck Sniper, I myself have had several (and when I say several, I mean around 20) Winchester Drylocks go poof. Actually, about half the powder burned very slowly when ignited and got blown into my buddies eyes as he was shooting. Not a good situation. I have not shot them since. And I also have never had a misfire from a Kent.

[GordonGekko]

Randy, no it won't fit in the AA hulls, I was goin to use the federal paper hulls, but what these fellas have been sayin' about shells gettin soaked has me worried, so I'll have to use STS's.

Heck, if you want to you can find someone that has had a problem with any shell made, just the law of averages that Randy was talkin' about earlier. All of the big companies make good shells, they didn't get where they are by selling boxes of 25 with 12 good shells in 'em. But, I have seen funny stuff happen to all of them. Does that mean that none are any good, nope just means that stuff happens and nothing is 100%.

Gordon