Choke Tube-

1. Ducks over decoy or in flooded timbers – modified choke or improved cylinder
2. Ducks pass shooting – full
3. Geese over decoy – modified choke or improved cylinder (if they’re coming in close)
4. Geese pass shooting – full
5. Teals – improved cylinder
6. Turkey – any full choke all the way down to .643 range
7. Coyotes – we like full, but we like the extra full (turkey chokes) even better

Keep in mind that HEVI-Shot® patterns from 88% – 92% out of a full choke.  As for brand of choke tube we don’t recommend one over another but that are several that have been made with HEVI-Shot® in mind from companies like:

1.  Tru-Glo
2. Pure Gold
3. Carlson’s Chokes
4. Primos
5. Mad Max
6. Briley

Reloading –
For reloading recipes, supplies or general information please contact Ballistic Products at 1-888-273-5623 or Precision Reloading at 1-800-223-0900.
Safety –
Is HEVI-Shot® safe to use in my gun?

1.  HEVI-Shot® Duck and Goose; HEVI-Steel®; Dead Coyote®; and HEVI-13® are safe to use in all steel rated shotguns using steel rated accessories.  For those older guns we recommend using our Classic Double’s line of shells.
2. The materials that make HEVI-Shot® products have no human or environmental toxicity.  They don’t corrode.
3. Our pellets are hard, like steel, so you don’t want to bite into one when eating your game.  Please be careful!

Density –
Take a ping pong ball and a golf ball.  They are both the same size but a golf ball is heavier (more dense) than a ping pong ball.  Suppose a major league pitcher were to throw one of each at you from 30 feet away.  Would you worry about the ping pong ball?  What about the golf ball?  Which would you rather get hit with?  In this example, the shot size (ball diameter) is the same, the muzzle velocity (from the pitcher’s arm) is the same, but the denser ping pong ball overcomes air resistance better than the light ping pong ball.  Now think about that as in steel shot versus HEVI-Shot®.
Steel comparison- Drop down 3 – 4 shot sizes.  Advantage – smaller shot size = higher pellet count.

1.  B steel = 4 HEVI-Shot®
2. 2 steel = 2 HEVI-Shot®
3. 4 steel = 7 ½ HEVI-Shot®
4. 6 steel = 9 HEVI-Shot®

Lead comparison – drop down 1 shot size.  Advantage – smaller shot size = higher pellet count.

1.  BB lead = B HEVI-Shot®
2. B lead = 2 HEVI-Shot®
3. 3 lead = 4 HEVI-Shot®

So what happened between you and Remington? We had many more new products than Remington was willing to bring to the market and we decided not to just keep them to ourselves.  We knew other hunters would want to use them and sure enough, they do!
Why don’t I get patterns like the ones I hear about from everyone else?  Every gun patterns differently and you have to experiment with choke and shell combinations in order to find the best combination for your gun.  There is a great article in the October 2006 American Hunter magazine by Dave Henderson that discusses this subject in detail.

How do your products compare with:
•Remington’s Wingmaster HD:  Our products cause more tissue damage than any round pellet for better lethality, is less expensive by about 30% and our pellets don’t crack on setback.  We haven’t been able to get any to pattern.
•Winchester’s Super Elite:  ours causes more tissue damage than any round pellet for better lethality and is less expensive by about 20%.  Apparently, judging from the still target competitions around the country, ours patterns better too!
•Federal Heavyweight:  ours have 20% to 40% greater pellet count and similar pellet energy, for much broader coverage and greater lethality.  We simply give you better odds on the bird at about half the price per shell.  Apparently, judging from the still target competitions around the country, ours patterns better too!
•Federal HD: This product compares to HEVI-Steel®, but costs 2.5 times more than HEVI-Steel®. 
Pellet Shape-
Unlike other types of shot, HEVI-Shot® pellets are irregularly shaped.  These shape modifications allow them to slice through air and birds by reducing the boundary layer in air that slows shapes down.  There is a widely held myth that shot should be spherical to fly well.  If that were true, people would shoot round bullets, fly round airplanes, and launch round rockets.  Of course they don’t because spheres slow down too much in air.  Smooth surfaces also work against superior ballistics.  That’s why golf ball makers put dimples on the balls; they disrupt the flow around the ball creating a more stable and accurate trajectory.  Aerospace engineers put trailing wires on airplane wings for the same reason.  HEVI-Shot® gives you these ballistic improvements through the irregular shapes we produce in our shotting process.
Pattern –
Shot clouds vibrate as they run down the barrel, and this vibration scatters the shot as it exits the muzzle, leading to the familiar spread we’ve all seen on the pattern board.  At HEVI•Shot® we do many things to dampen this vibration and improve our patterns even more.
For example, buffering.  Buffer, essentially ultra-small plastic spheres that act between pellets like shock absorbers, dramatically reduces the “breaking a rack of pool balls” effect on setback, and keeps pellets marching straight up the barrel.  We seal the buffer into the shell with light-activated polymers.  We know this extra process is worth it when we see patterns improve by 2% - 5%. 
We also coat our pellets with nano-particle lubricants to reduce vibration in the choke region.  Lubricated pellets neck through the choke constriction with less jostling and fly straighter.  We bring the same scientific rigor to propellant selection, ballistic optimization, temperature extremes and gun functioning.

So why do HEVI-Shot® products outperform all other shotshell ammunition?  Science.  Science is the quiet ally in our drive to make the absolute best ammunition possible.  The HEVI-Shot® brand will always mean the highest performance for our hunters because when you think about it, our real product is helping you make great memories from a successful hunt.  A HEVI-Shot® story to pass down for generations to come.