Preparing for Winter Goose Season 2021

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I have used up my small stock of 12ga 3.5" cartridges. Some were the old pure tungsten and they really brought the geese down. But now I look and cannot find just tungsten Cartridges. Now they are Steel and bismuth or tungsten and steel etc etc.

What has worked for you for geese with the presently available heavy loads?

I do not use all steel because it takes three shots with steels to do what one hot with tungsten accomplished. With the January Hunt coming up I need to get some new cartridges in 3.5" and get ready.
 
I switched to bbb in 10ga for pass shooting geese and it works well to 60 yards. Not so well over decoys with larger pellets the density for head and neck shots isnt as great but only 1 pellet is needed. Screw the lead and ruin the bird at less than 30 yards though
 
You dont need tungsten loads to bring down geese. If you are shooting over decoys inside 20-25 yards, I’d go with a 1 or 2 shot. If you are shooting beyond that, I’d go with BB or BBB. I like T shot for pass shooting but it seems to work best with overbored barrels and 10g.
 
I have used the Steel and find them useless on Geese unless the goose is close. I demonstrated this to myself on a hunt when I hit the goose three times with steel to bring it down, then switched to Kent Tungsten and one shot did the same. Then I switched to tungsten and the Geese were easily harvested. Now with the new loads I cannot find one as effective as the old Tungsten, Don't recommend Steel its worthless to me. Should I go with some of the steel and bismuth combo loads?
 
Kent still makes the Tungsten Matrix (Kent TM) but at around $7 a shell, not a lot of retailers make it a stocking item. Back in the day there was the TM in which the pellets were a blend of tungsten a polymer and Tungsten Iron, a blended pellet of tungsten and iron. The Tungsten Iron combo was too hard and not as good as the TM so it got dropped fairly quickly.
 
If we could ever get any up here I would recommend going with some BOSS brand bismuth shells they have some of the most sensible and practical non tox loads of any company I’ve seen. And appear to pattern well from what I’ve read.
 
brybenn said:
Ive never found steel t shot to pattern well in any 12ga. If using bbb avoid challenger shells theyre junk
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I second the challenger shells...I had a couple boxes and they gave me a hard time this year. One box had 5 or 6 squibs loads. Pissed me right off.

As for the T shot, I found they pattern real well out of my Mossberg 935, but its barrel has a 10g bore
 
I personnally use Remington Hypersonic #1 shot, 3 in shells. I believe they are 1 1/4 oz at 1750 fps.
I shoot them in a Benelli Vinci. It works!
 
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