Today I broke down and picked up some more shells to play with. I got a box of the Winchester PDX Buck and slug loads. I also was talked into the 8 pellet Hornady Critical Defense load at another small shop. That stuff is trucking at 1600fps but we will see if the pattern is blown out or not. I have pretty much given up on anything that isn't possible to get locally. Which means Federal Flight control is out. Winchester 3" #1Buck is available at Walmart as is the Federal Premium 3" 00 Buck and maybe 000 Buck.

I have decided to go with the 3" 000 Buck first for it's great pattern and then three 3" 00 Buck and two 2¾" magnum 00 Buck because that is the most pellets I could stack in the tube without losing the third 3" shell. All are Federal Premium shells until I find something I like better and can convince myself that the Winchester #1 Buck is penetrating well enough.

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