Scheel’s Sale

[Dr Swane]

Scheel’s has some pretty good pricing on target and hunting loads, as well as some powders in stock. Shipping and in store options throughout the country.

I’m looking to pick up some cases of 12gauge lead, and try a few boxes of the Federal 3” 28gauge steel 3/4oz loads. TightGroup was $100/4pounds.

 

[Ruination]

Thanks for the heads up, doesn't look like they will ship the good stuff though ,

Unless I'm missing something.

 

[Dr Swane]

I picked up 3 boxes to test out. 118pellets is my guess for the load. I have a few 3” 28gauge guns to run these through. I could see these being used as early as September on some early geese for overall effectiveness.

 

[NW BIRDHUNTER]

Not a big fan of Black cloud but, nice to see some steel offerings in 28 gauge, other than 6's.

 

[Dr Swane]

Not a big fan of Black cloud but, nice to see some steel offerings in 28 gauge, other than 6's.

I’ve loaded some 2.75” 5/8oz Steel 3’s in 28gauge years back. They’ll kill ducks just fine. Curious if this option will pattern consistently for those days where ducks and geese should work in close

 

[derbyacresbob]

I have always liked over kill when it comes to shooting geese. There is no way I would plan on shooting steel #3 shot at small geese. For geese I use loads that will kill them with body hits. Using shot types and sizes that require head and neck hits only cripple geese when you don't lead them enough.

Those Black Cloud flightstopper pellets probable don't penetrate as deep as round steel #3 shot .

1400 fps steel #3 shot gets 2.20" of gel penetration at 17.5 yards.
1400 fps steel #3 shot gets 1.50" of gel penetration at 37.1 yards.

Those steel #3 shot 28 ga loads would probable work fine on ducks.

 

[Billy Bob]

Cacklers are mallard size in body mass. 3's kill them just fine inside 40. Used to kill them over a Texas rag spread with a 20 using 3" 3's.

 

[Ruination]

Cacklers are mallard size in body mass. 3's kill them just fine inside 40. Used to kill them over a Texas rag spread with a 20 using 3" 3's.

The first time I saw a cackler I was dumbfounded.

Had no idea how small they were.

 

[Billy Bob]

The first time I saw a cackler I was dumbfounded.

Had no idea how small they were.

I checked in a pair when we had check stations. 2.11 pounds and 2.09 pounds. I said I must have the record for smallest goose. Gal weighing the birds said close but the smallest was 2.01. I'll never forget that.

 

[Dr Swane]

Between 0.70-0.74 oz of shot

45 total “flight stopper” pellets:
average 2.98gn/pellet
67 plated #3 steel pellets:
average 2.85gn/pellet

TPS style wad to fit a 3” hull, with a deeper powder cup than a TPS wad, 24.5gn powder, looks similar to LilGun