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Anybody else shoot a 16 on waterfowl other than me? I have been shooting factory Hevi-shot in #4 and #6(mostly#6). Never impressed with the steel shot. Andy We Band of Bubbas N.R.A Life Member TDR Cummins Power All The Way Certified member of the Whompers Club | ||
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The father of JUANPOZZI a well knowm member of AR always uses his custom ou 16 gauge on waterfowl with great results ,he uses number 5 pellets . | |||
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drewhenrytnt: Keep up the tradition!. This 79 year old, back when dinosaurs still roamed, used a 16 gauge in jump shooting on mallards and teal along a brook and also by sneaking up on a beaver pond for mallards. (#6s on the brook ducks and #4s on the pond mallards) Just don't try to stretch the 16 to be a 12. (Use a 12 on geese at any range or on ducks beyond 35 yards would be my thought) | |||
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I never have, but i think the previous generation did quite a bit. My grandfather swore by his 16 as a duck gun and I wish I hand't let that old gun get away. That old pump action warrior certainly had more character them the camo benelli(sp?) I shoot waterfowl with, kind of a throw back ya know? | |||
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I love the 16! I have a Pre WWII 2-9/16 chamber Browning Sweet that actually belongs to my father as long as he is still with us. Even though he has no interest in hunting or even shooting may he stay with us for a long time yet, I am not ready for him to go yet! I finally found short chamber shells-I am not into reloading shotgun shells very proficiently. Game Bore has breathed new and amazing life into the old girl! Then I decided last year to find a late model Sweet 16 with choke tubes approved for steel shot...and I did...and the price was right. I have some 1.25 oz loads but think they are overkill in a 16. The only 12 I have still is a model 12 my 2nd cousin gave me over ten years ago. He bought it new to shoot pheasants in Minnesooota. He left us thanksgiving last year. I never got the chance to hunt with him or to hunt pheasants in Minn. The Pre-WWII 16 came from the same side of the family many years before I was thought of. Instead of gathering money to hunt Africa, I have decided to save to hunt ducks and pheasants in Minnesooota. It could be an almost religious experience. I hope I can get my dad to go with me. I think deep down he likes the 16 too! Andy B We Band of Bubbas N.R.A Life Member TDR Cummins Power All The Way Certified member of the Whompers Club | |||
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My Great Grandfather shot thousands of ducks with his model 97 16 ga. But then he lived in AR all his life and experienced the great decades of waterfowling. I started with the 20 ga and then went straight to the 12. I have a few friends that used to hunt with us that had 16s, but ammo became somewhat of a problem and now they've gone to 12's. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Do they still hunt with lead in S. America and other parts of the world? Probably a stupid question but I've never thought about it before, not having hunted out of the states. | |||
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I hunted ducks last week in Argentina. They used lead. I hunted in New Zealand last year. They used non toxic shells. | |||
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It seems to me that Phil Robertson (duck commander) used to shoot an old humpback 16 ga. before he got so popular and sponsorships and such. The guy lives his life around waterfowl hunting and had his pick of what to shoot. | |||
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I use one of my 16's off and on for mixed bag waterfowl and upland hunting around home. I use bismuth or Tungsten Matrix for ducks and geese, the steel 16ga. loads I can buy just don't kill very well unless I'm very close, and i can't shoot steel anyway in my old European doubles.    | |||
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