Destry, I was shooting a 3" Longrange Wildfowl gun in N.D. and I can tell you one thing, it will kill em a long way. I did not put the gun to the test for fear of crppling game but shot several cripples that had got on out there and would have died later. It is one heck of a gun shooting Hevi-Shot. I have no fear of shooting these loads in this gun.It has the heaviest barrels I have ever seen on any sxs bar none. I use it in my layout blinds and would not want to tote it in the field for long. I did take it out on a pheasant hunt at my farm in N.D. but it's pretty easy to get a limit this year. Way to go on the bands. Other than resident geese this year, we have only managed to get one baldpate band.Mike