Favorite Ammo for your side by sideArchived Message
Posted by Nevada on June 3, 2014, 9:03 pm
What are your favorite shotgun shells for you L.C. Smiths? I know we are told to stay with reasonable pressure loads, although I have shot pretty heavy hunting loads out of my field grade for many years without apparent damage.
But it's more then that, since it seems that more and more of the cheaper shells are causing issues with sticking firing pins, causing hard opening, which one guy on here told me was probably a bigger issue then heavy loads in causing stock issues, due to the stresses involved in breaking the gun open if the wrong ammo is used.
I noticed tonight that I was having sticking firing pin issues with one of my Smiths, when shooting AA's and I was getting deep indentions and experiencing hard opening, but when I switched to Remington sure Shot Heavy Dove, which is a heavier load, I had no problems at all, easy opening and fairly light indentions in the primers, resulting is no firing pin sticking.
Name some shells that you like in your guns, Please.