What's your opinion of Hevi shot for turkey? I tried some when it first came out and it didn't pattern very well for me. I've since bought a MADD choke made for the Hevi shot to use in my Browning. I'm shooting 3.5 inch high velocity and was wondering if I should shot 6's, 5's or 4's? I've been using the Winchester high velocity shells which work "okay".

Bob257

use the one that patterns best in your gun, a head shot turkey is dead no matter what shot size

The 4's will give you a little more range.

Pattern it, like the previous post mentioned. Use those turkey head targets and aim for the base of the neck. If you can't get 4 pellets in the head/neck, your pattern is too loose.

Bob257 I use Remington Hevi shot #6 and out of my Remington 1100 3" with a Hevi shot super full choke I get 66 pellets in the head and neck of my turkey target at 40yds and at 70 yds I still get 10 pellets in the head and neck. The turkey I shot last year at 45yds it just blowup the head on that turkey and a friend this year got a turkey a 70yds with his Remington 11-87 supermag using Hevi shot #4 and a Hevi shot super full choke it did a number on that turkey head I could not believe it. The only thing about Hevi shot is the cost and its not bad if you only shot 2 or 3 shots a year. I have a 4X scope on my barrel and it only needed to be sighted in once so the cost is not a big dill to me. Cabelas has Hevi shot super full choke for just about ever gun.

[ 06-06-2003, 18:33: Message edited by: Paul Dustin ]

do you think it would ever get down to a size 7 8 9 for clay shooting? The way they complain about lead I would like to think that one day it would be cheap enough to use in skeet, sporting etcetc.
Thoughts anyone???

Hevi shot is expensive to make so unless someone figures out how to make it cheaper, we're stuck paying through the nose. When steel first came out it too was expensive. Everyone though it would come down as time went by. The only reason steel got cheaper is because better alternatives were introduced like bismuth, tungsten iron, etc. Even now steel is too expensive but cheap enough compared to the rest that they can charge what they want. There's a huge market for non-toxic shot and we have no choice.

Is hevi shot worth it? As far as I'm concerned, absolutely! I shoot a lot of the stuff waterfowl hunting and can't imagine having to go back to steel. I've heard steel pellets bounce off ducks without them missing a wingbeat. If I mess up and don't squarely hit the bird, at least it's hit hard enough to put it down and recover instead of flying far enough to loose it. With all that we spend on hunting, so what if the shells cost you an extra $20 for a couple boxes of good turkey loads.

That's my $.02

Bill

Here's a few more cents. As far as skeet shooting goes, 1/2 oz of #8s from a .410 smoke tagets if you do your part, and Hevi shot would carry a lot farther possibly creating a safety issue depending on the range. Shooting sporting clays with Hevi shot would give you harder hits making distant targets easier so courses would end up being designed with even farther shots to take some of the edge away.