Thread: Whats your go to duck load

Originally Posted by country cuts

From my small amount of shooting I found the smaller shot sizes in steel punch through better some of the bigger pellets bind up in the feathers punching them out of the sky but not killing them

Several tests have been done on this (they are online somewhere), which showed that bigger pellets penetrate further than smaller ones in ballistic gel. Sorta makes sense around retained energy of the heavier shot.