Kent Presision Steel 3" 1.8 oz at 1475fps

Kent ammo is good stuff IMHO. don't know about "Precision Steel" but I've shot several cases of their Faststeel shells over the last three or four years. They claim that with steel, "speed kills" and I agree. Kent makes good goose loads. I mostly use their Faststeel 12 ga. 1-1/16 oz 2-3/4" stuff, but the lighter, fast 3" loads work well too. It's nice to see a company that understands that heavy loads of large shot are unessessary and inefficient if the shell can be made to shoot fast enough with smaller shot. I mostly use #1's for geese over decoys, and customarily shoot more than a hundred birds a season. We have a 28 goose daily limit here, ( 20 snows, & 8 dark geese) and 8 ducks. It's not at all unusual for one hunter to fire three boxes of shells in a single morning shoot. Under our prairie field shooting conditions, relativly low recoil loads are a big advantage in hitting well and improving kill %. I'd need some convincing to go back to the REM-WIN-FED stuff, mainly becuase of price/performance issues compared to Kent. Kent hulls are made by Cheddite, and can be reloaded using Cheddite data.
 
Speed is the answer. I have dropped more with a #2 then BBB.
I have watched. like evryone else, too many hit the water and keep on going, or just keep on flying.

I really am Careful on my range now as well. I don't push it too far.
 
Speed is part of the answer. pattern density ( even pellet coverage) is the other. "Faststeel" is indeed a good product, and considerably better IMHO than their "All Purpose - Precision Steel" promo load.

For 3" Steel loads, my preference is the 1-1/4 oz. load at 1425. The "extra 1/8 oz" of shot does seem to make a difference. For decoying birds, 2's work just fine. For longer shooting at geese, BB or BBB has paid off.

My overall preference however, is for Kent's 2-3/4" - 1-3/8 oz. load of # 1's in Tungsten Matrix for geese and their 1-1/4 oz load of # 3's or # 5's
for ducks. It outperforms lead and lets me shoot a few older guns which I prefer in the blind.
 
1 1/8" oz is what I meant. Anyways I picked up a case of this without looking at the box close enough. I thought I was getting faststeel. I would imagine this should be on par or slightly better than the Win Xpert Steel? I don't think I could return it and they don't have anything I'd want to exchange for or pay the difference, so looks like I'm stuck with it. It was pretty cheap so maybe I'll use it for clays this summmer. Would be good to practise with something close to what I'll be using during season.

Chris
 
Pattern them and see what you get. Every gun is different and what patterns well in one may be terrible in another. Mine will pattern Kent fasteel very nicely(3" 1-3/8oz BB @1400 fps IIRC) but I tried a Rem load with identical specs and the pattern was un-usable. You mentioned the cheap Win X-pert loads, my gun shoots those very well. They are a little faster than the ones you have (3" 1-1/8oz BB @1550fps). This is the load I use for geese.
 
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