Magblends or HW7?

[reynolds243]

Going to the 20g world. What seems to be a more popular shell considering patterns and overall turkey killed. Have shot magblends for years in my 12 but have been told HW7 are the cats meow in 20s

[R AJ]

You can kill birds with both O. K. ?  In order to maximize pattern coverage and have very lethal shot energy at 40 yards you just can't beat the Fed HW #7 load for 20 gauge. You only have 1.5 oz of shot in the 20.

Fed HW weighs 15 g/cc while the Mag Blend shot are 12g/cc or 13g/cc at the most. Why use up space with #5 and #6 shot when the smaller #7 shot could be used?

As for the FC wad issue the 20 gauge shells work for SSX, GSE,  SumToy, Rem SF, Carlson, Trulock chokes among others.

[cohuttariverrat]

My gun liked Fed HW 7 better than the magblends. Both was good at 40yd but the HW put up better numbers for me

[FL-Boss]

Fed HW #7, 3in.... hands down for the 20ga

[darron]

Fed HW #7, 3in.... hands down for the 20ga

What he said! I have a 870 20ga with 26" barrel and I run the 3" FHW 7's with a SSX choke and I have hit 200 before at a lasered 40 yards with a cleaned barrel. I couldn't believe my eyes. I posted my results in the patterning section last year I believe. I am consistently getting in the 180's.

I was getting 140-150 with H-13 7's which is still a good pattern.

[Crawl79]

Never considered using my 20 gauge as a turkey gun but will be doing some research. I have killed everything else with the gun, I am sure if I put in the work I can get a good turkey pattern.

[owlhoot]

Shoot the Hevi weight feds in 7 shot with the right choke and you will be AMAZED !