What Size Shot for Duck and Geese?

[turkeyrun]

Prepared right, not cooked right.

There is a difference.

 

[fishincoop]

Fellas, I’ve prepared and cooked those ducks every way possible, even the “proper way” that you may recommend ….you either like it or you don’t, some folks eat liver, most don’t like the liver taste. Any bird who can fly from Canada to Mexico and back every year has a lot of dark slow-twitch muscle - which is why I prefer duck legs (lighter meat) to breast meat. They don’t walk to Mexico!

Maybe post up your proper way to cook duck-geese in Cooking section. The OP just wanted to know what size shot to use if SHTF.

 

[Jason Freeland]

Fellas, I’ve prepared and cooked those ducks every way possible, even the “proper way” that you may recommend ….you either like it or you don’t, some folks eat liver, most don’t like the liver taste. Any bird who can fly from Canada to Mexico and back every year has a lot of dark slow-twitch muscle - which is why I prefer duck legs (lighter meat) to breast meat. They don’t walk to Mexico!

Maybe post up your proper way to cook duck-geese in Cooking section. The OP just wanted to know what size shot to use if SHTF.

Hence why I said only if I'm hungry. This is a SHTF question, I'd rather eat chicken breast bought from the store. I buy beef by the cow.

 

[ttown]

What size shot? Doesn’t make since if you don’t know what size ducks your after, then you work your chokes for what you have.

I stock #1 and #2 steel. #1 on mallards or geese.

I shoot an over/under which is a big advantage.

Do they flare up to the decoys or are they turning short or call shy?

IC/ modified for mallards @ 30-35 yards, wound to many any further with steel.

CYl/skeet/IC for teal or wood ducks.

Geese depending on if you’re pass shooting or in a blind. Pass shooting Mod/ full.

Got my limit on quail in Kansas hunting pheasant in a green tree area using #2 steel and a cyl/ skeet chokes. That trip enlighten me even more on working chokes with steel.

I see what’s coming and use the proper chokes , I’ve been known to go skeet modified if it a mixed bag.

JMO