Tim Kelly Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 I don't get as many chances to go to the foreshore as I used to pre lead ban, but every Christmas I have a few days with a buddy in Suffolk. My results the last few years have been on the poor side, and I am beginning to wonder whether the steel shot has something to do with it and whether one needs to adjust their shooting technique a bit with steel? I still seem to kill pigeons and pheasants with lead much the same way as I always have, but the ducks, and particularly geese seem to get missed or wiggled way more than they used to. A couple of days ago I had a rare chance at geese. I hit the bird with the first barrel (1/4 choke gamebore 36g 3" size 1) and it wiggled and started losing altitude. Missed it with the second barrel, but watched it plane in a few hundred yards away. Probably took me 20 minutes to battle my way to where it fell and spent an hour looking with the dog for no result. When the bird crashed in it looked like it would be dead and it was a lung shot, but evidently not. It's a bit difficult to have much practise using 3" steel shot as it is a fairly hard recoiling load to use at pigeons or clays (if you were allowed to use them at a clay ground) any tips on what people have done to improve with steel, or is it just me shooting badly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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