what brand of shotgun shells have you used mostly..

95% Federal Target loads (you can't beat the price at Cabelas up here)
5% Remington 3 1/2 nitro turkey loads (Just for Sh**s and Giggles when I take someone new shooting like my fiance :D)

Haven't gotten into too any hunting since I moved to good ol' North Dakota just a lot of clays.
 
Haven't gotten into too any hunting since I moved to good ol' North Dakota just a lot of clays.
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What's going on? The guys down here go to the Dakotas for the bird shooting and you're popping clays. Sounds like the cosmos is out of balance. :)
 
Haven't gotten into too any hunting since I moved to good ol' North Dakota just a lot of clays.
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Times are a changing - when I lived in ND, there were NO clays and everything was about hunting in fact that was where I learned about pheasant and duck hunting
 
I used Federal for target shooting (90%), and Hornady for SD/HD (10%).

I make a point of taking a box or 2 of the Hornady when I go to the range to shoot.
 
gobbler load

I'm a turkey hunter, spring gobbler is my game.

First turkey loads were 3" W-W, 1-7/8 oz of shot. Then Federal came out with their 2 oz loads and I shot those for a few years.

Then came the Activ shotshell company, and 2 -1/4 oz of shot in a 3" shell. In my gun, #6 shot was like saturation fire, and #5 with that load seemed a great killer as well. But...velocity was likely suffering, that much shot and short turkey tubes...somethings got to give.

Active went under and I begtan looking for another shell. I'm back to W-W Premium, 1-3/4 oz of #5 shot. Patterns as well as the old 2 oz loads, and velocity is much higher (I hope). Won't break the bank like space shot either.
 
When I shot trap I only used AAs but now that all my shooting is purely recreational it's whatever is cheapest, usually federal and sometimes estate.
 
All my shooting is skeet and trap for which I mainly shoot reloaded Remington Gun Clubs but now am shooting a lot of Winchester AAs since I have a bunch of Winchester wads and primers.
 
All my shooting is skeet and trap for which I mainly shoot reloaded Remington Gun Clubs but now am shooting a lot of Winchester AAs since I have a bunch of Winchester wads and primers.
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Depending on your load, those primers and wads work well in Remington hulls also
 
Growing up it was mostly Eley Gran Prix orange paper hulls with a few Remington Peters. Now it's mostly Winchester.
 
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All my shooting is skeet and trap for which I mainly shoot reloaded Remington Gun Clubs but now am shooting a lot of Winchester AAs since I have a bunch of Winchester wads and primers.

Depending on your load, those primers and wads work well in Remington hulls also
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Actually, one ounce, I use the identical loads for Gun Clubs and AAs. I have been accumulating some AAs so I thought I would shoot them for a while. I kind of am looking to see if I have as many FTF which have been running about 1 in a thousand
 
Don't really have an allegiance to any particular brand, Have bought some of most all brands.
 
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