proud2deviate
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Well, I'd originally planned to do a long, convoluted, formal-like range report, but frankly, my shoulder's kind of tender right now, and typing is a bit of a pain. So, the short version. All loads were fired from my Remington 870 Police Magnum, 20" IC barrel, with rifle sights.
Federal Tack-Tickle 9 pellet 00 buckshot, with flitecontrol wad, (also flite control, for the sake of the search function,) 1325 fps - This stuff generally held a pattern on a 9" paper plate at 25 yards, if I did my part right. I tried it at 50 yards, just for the heck of it, and it put two pellets on a plate per shot, with interesting consistency. My HD round, until something better comes along.
Remington Value Pack 00 buckshot, 9 pellets, 1325 FPS - This stuff is a hoot! A bit stouter recoil than the Federal stuff, and cheap enough that I didn't feel bad about putting eight rounds down range as quick as I could. At 10 yards, patterns were respectable, but I really should have had bigger targets on hand. Fun, cheap, and decent.
Remington value pack slugs, 1 oz. "Slugger", 1560 fps. - I just wanted to say, that if you're a chunk of lead, the job of a rifled shotgun slug must sound pretty cool. "Wanted: Large-ish chunk of lead to fly really fast and turn stuff inside-out." It must be like the race-car driver of the lead world. Anyway, on to performance. These were really surprising. For one thing, I'd just installed the rear sight on my shot gun, going by what "looked right". First three shots at fifty yards all found paper. Cool! I tried them at 25 yards, with the same results. At the end of the day, I found three of these bad boys in my pocket and decided to screw around with them. I walked 100 yards down range with one of my paper plates, and pinned it to the orange plastic construction netting. Walked back, slid my three slugs into the tube, chambered one, shouldered the gun, glanced at the sights, and fired. The other two quickly followed. Well, that was fun. I walked downrange to pick of my plate, and as I get closer, my near-sighted eyes slowly begin to register a hole in the target. Wait, not just one hole, three! I took the last sixty or so yards at an excited jog, and found three really big holes in a five inch spread. Woot! I suddenly wished I hadn't wasted so many of those at 25 yards. I took my plate home and hung it on the fridge
Also, barely worth mentioning, except for the "stay away" factor, are Winchester's "Super Speed" game loads. 7/8 oz. 7.5 shot, 1350 fps. These shot okay, and pattered decent, but extraction was a nightmare. Out of eight rounds, with four of them, I had to grab the forend and slam the butt of the gun into the bench HARD to get the action to open. I'd heard that Winchester's cheap stuff was out of spec, but now I know for sure to stay away. If it gags a clean 870, something ain't right.
All in all, I had a pretty good day. I brought a brick of cheap .22 LR and had a blast knocking frozen grapefruits around the range. With a bit of concentration, I was making 12 ga. hulls jump at 25 yards. Since I'd been working on the 10/22 and didn't know how it would perform, I was really happy.
Gotta run now. Time's gotten away from me, and I have a doctor's appointment coming up.
Federal Tack-Tickle 9 pellet 00 buckshot, with flitecontrol wad, (also flite control, for the sake of the search function,) 1325 fps - This stuff generally held a pattern on a 9" paper plate at 25 yards, if I did my part right. I tried it at 50 yards, just for the heck of it, and it put two pellets on a plate per shot, with interesting consistency. My HD round, until something better comes along.
Remington Value Pack 00 buckshot, 9 pellets, 1325 FPS - This stuff is a hoot! A bit stouter recoil than the Federal stuff, and cheap enough that I didn't feel bad about putting eight rounds down range as quick as I could. At 10 yards, patterns were respectable, but I really should have had bigger targets on hand. Fun, cheap, and decent.
Remington value pack slugs, 1 oz. "Slugger", 1560 fps. - I just wanted to say, that if you're a chunk of lead, the job of a rifled shotgun slug must sound pretty cool. "Wanted: Large-ish chunk of lead to fly really fast and turn stuff inside-out." It must be like the race-car driver of the lead world. Anyway, on to performance. These were really surprising. For one thing, I'd just installed the rear sight on my shot gun, going by what "looked right". First three shots at fifty yards all found paper. Cool! I tried them at 25 yards, with the same results. At the end of the day, I found three of these bad boys in my pocket and decided to screw around with them. I walked 100 yards down range with one of my paper plates, and pinned it to the orange plastic construction netting. Walked back, slid my three slugs into the tube, chambered one, shouldered the gun, glanced at the sights, and fired. The other two quickly followed. Well, that was fun. I walked downrange to pick of my plate, and as I get closer, my near-sighted eyes slowly begin to register a hole in the target. Wait, not just one hole, three! I took the last sixty or so yards at an excited jog, and found three really big holes in a five inch spread. Woot! I suddenly wished I hadn't wasted so many of those at 25 yards. I took my plate home and hung it on the fridge
Also, barely worth mentioning, except for the "stay away" factor, are Winchester's "Super Speed" game loads. 7/8 oz. 7.5 shot, 1350 fps. These shot okay, and pattered decent, but extraction was a nightmare. Out of eight rounds, with four of them, I had to grab the forend and slam the butt of the gun into the bench HARD to get the action to open. I'd heard that Winchester's cheap stuff was out of spec, but now I know for sure to stay away. If it gags a clean 870, something ain't right.
All in all, I had a pretty good day. I brought a brick of cheap .22 LR and had a blast knocking frozen grapefruits around the range. With a bit of concentration, I was making 12 ga. hulls jump at 25 yards. Since I'd been working on the 10/22 and didn't know how it would perform, I was really happy.
Gotta run now. Time's gotten away from me, and I have a doctor's appointment coming up.
