20 bore

[20bjames]

hi all i have used my 20 bore for about 5 years now for rough shooting and always used hull cartridges 25gram fiber shot size 6 and found them good but this year i have got a few days driven pheasant and they are alot higher than i would shoot normaly shoot has any one used these on high birds i suffer bad from recoil so dont want to use any think heavy any idears

[sitsinhedges]

Maybe put some nice tight chokes in to hold the pattern together if it's a multi choke

 

Plastic wads seem to hold the pattern together for longer too, arguably :unsure:

Edited August 28, 2011 by sitsinhedges

[Guest cookoff013]

use bigger shotsize. not bigger payload..

[Windknot]

Hull Sterling Game 28 gram #6 (if your gun has 70mm chambers)

Fiocchi does a similar load- both have fibre wads.

 

Recoil is fine in my MK70- I'm hard pressed to tell the difference between that and the 25 gram cartridges.

 

I've also tried some Eley 32 gram cartridges- noticeable recoil in the MK70, and a good kick in a friend's single barrel 20.

 

I've brought down some good birds with the 28 gram load and 1/2 choke, so much so that I don't use anything else in 20 gauge now. For some reason I've never had much joy with #5 shot- maybe pattern density is too low. You need about 34 grammes of 5's to approximate the pellet count of 28 grammes of sixes, and six shot kills perfectly well out to the sort of ranges where I can reliably hit pheasants.