Duck load recommendations

[grahamch]

Never used steel before and looking for recommendations for a good duck load for next season on the shore now have used the last of my ITM 5s.

 

To be used in a Beretta 690/3 3 inch chamber. TIA

[Stimo22]

4 hours ago, grahamch said:

Never used steel before and looking for recommendations for a good duck load for next season on the shore now have used the last of my ITM 5s.

 

To be used in a Beretta 690/3 3 inch chamber. TIA

I always use Gamebore Silver Steel. These are 3” fibre wadded no4 cartridges and find them good for duck. We can’t use plastic wads on ground so these are ideal

[flippermaj]

If you need none plastic wads eley eco 32 gram 3 or 5 will do the job just fine.   Plastic wads the gamebore 70 mm wetland steel 32 gram 4 was always great.  Some use 3 inch carts like gamebore mammoths 36 gram 3 but personally unless they are a long long way out they are over kill plus extra recoil.

[Smudger687]

Ideal would be a 3 inch load of 2's. The 3 inch RC steel 36g 2's would be perfect. Note that RC labels these a 1, but they are in fact 3.81mm, so a size 2. 

[B B]

I reload most of my steel, but for longer passing shots i have used RC three inch 36 gram 1s as above, and for factory ammo they are good. For closer decoying again i reload , but i had some NSI 32 gram 4s a couple of seasons ago, they were acceptable. My advice start reloading.

[Scully]

I always used Gamebore Super Steel 3’s, but ranges weren’t ‘out there’ and they’re plastic wads, but they were certainly humane. 

[mgsontour]

Another vote for Gamebore SS 3's like others its all I use.

Consider choke selection depending on range/spread you want

[enfieldspares]

If shooting on Scotland under their laws on lead shot I'd use the classic lead shot duck load of 1 1/4 ounce of English #5 in a gun choked half and half in both barrels. It gives you everything, pattern and penetration to give a lethal perfomance. 

[Dave at kelton]

1 hour ago, enfieldspares said:

If shooting on Scotland under their laws on lead shot I'd use the classic lead shot duck load of 1 1/4 ounce of English #5 in a gun choked half and half in both barrels. It gives you everything, pattern and penetration to give a lethal perfomance. 

Can’t use lead on the shore in Scotland

[archi]

Eley lightening 3” 36g 3s

shot these through a miruko mk60 high pheasant with 3/4 choke for a season or 2 and certainly killed well

now shoot them when needed through my B25 as well, prefer them to the gamebore mammoths

they used to do a 32g load that was equally as good in a 3 shot.

 

[holloway]

37 minutes ago, archi said:

Eley lightening 3” 36g 3s

shot these through a miruko mk60 high pheasant with 3/4 choke for a season or 2 and certainly killed well

now shoot them when needed through my B25 as well, prefer them to the gamebore mammoths

they used to do a 32g load that was equally as good in a 3 shot.

 

I managed to get a few hundred of the 32 g 3s excellent cartridges and the 36 g ones .