Recent content by peashooter

I have no experience with geese but i used the #4s in the 1.25 oz 1350 fps load in South Dakota this year for pheasants. Only shot a couple, but they did a good job on them. No real far shots but birds went down no problem. I shot one with an IC choke going away at about 20 yards. Didn't hurt...

Good to know! How long have you worked for Environmetal? :D

I sent an email to Kent a little while ago asking about how the Bismuth compares to lead (asked if #4 or 5 would be closest to #5 lead and what they would recommend for late November pheasants. Also asked what they improved about their Bismuth load, and finally how the Tungsten Matrix would...

Thanks for reporting back Dewey! Glad to hear they performed well for you. I've actually been considering buying some Heavyweight-13 shot and loading my own shells, but it sounds like it can be a pain to reload the tungsten stuff and there seems to be limited recipes for it. If the Bismuth is...

Interesting. The TM seems to be pretty highly rated overall. That's a good lesson to not buy too much of any one thing before patterning it. As long as the Bismuth works well on birds I sure like the price of it more.

Thanks for the feedback and pattern pics! Surprised those are shooting tight but that's probably not all bad for when we're going. Hunting with our Springer Spaniel that isn't exactly a field trial winner, and being later in the season I'm anticipating a few birds getting up a ways out there...

Thanks for the replies so far. One thing I forgot to ask: Do I need to upsize one shot size compared to lead, or can I use #5 bismuth where #5 lead would be used? We'll be in SD the week of Thanksgiving, so I'm wondering if I need to go with 4's or if 5's will be plenty for pheasants out to 40...

Hello, first post to the forum. I'll be taking my first trip to South Dakota for Pheasants this year. Will probably take some #2 or #3 steel along as cheaper backup, but want to try some of the "Like Lead" alternatives too. I like the price of the Kent Bismuth loads as well as a couple of the...