Favorite Dove loads?

[Moonpie]

What is your favorite dove load/shotshell?

 

[BRD@66]

El cheapo for the young & dumb during 1st week, then high brass for the survivors.

 

[TxStetson]

Rio Texas Game Load. The first time I used them, everyone else out there made fun of my high brass shells. They were all using high velocity shells. Once they figured out i had 1-1/4 oz of lead traveling the same speed as their 7/8 oz loads, they all started asking where they could find them. Within a coupon weeks, everybody was carrying blue high brass shells.

 

[hoghunting]

I use Winchester AA Target loads as they have a very consistent pattern. When I buy them on sale and with the rebate, they're the same price as cheap ammo.
Used them yesterday to limit out and the brass never sticks in the chambers of my SxS like the plated cheap ammo does.

 

[SloppyShooter]

My favorite dove loads are a grill loaded with breasted whitewings ,( refrigerated whole for 3 days, stuffed with jalapeno, bacon wrapped , and marinated in coca cola and soy sauce over mesquite coals.

Ohhhh....shotgun loads.....the one that drops them. Seriously , no doubt a superior load helps increase your chances of downing a dove, but MORESO is practicing at the range beforehand .

I recall a year where 5 or 6 guys were sitting in the back of pick-ups and I took the back of the line. Boom boom boom boom boom boom.....(going away.... boom...dead dove.) After awhile, a guy snuck around to the end of the line, soooo.....I just knocked them down crossing. IIRC, cheapest dove loads on the market.
Not trying to dis anyone , and it never hurts to use the best and keep the odds in your favor , but ability is the most important factor, which comes from time behind the stock.

The best load is a worked up reload, which AGAIN, requires behind the stock time. No shortcuts.

 

[Moonpie]

View attachment 147460 Rio Texas Game Load. The first time I used them, everyone else out there made fun of my high brass shells. They were all using high velocity shells. Once they figured out i had 1-1/4 oz of lead traveling the same speed as their 7/8 oz loads, they all started asking where they could find them. Within a coupon weeks, everybody was carrying blue high brass shells.

Where do you get them?
I do not remember ever seeing these around my area.

 

[TxStetson]

Some Academies and Cabella’s carried them, but I didn’t see them at all this year.

 

[SloppyShooter]

Some Academies and Cabella’s carried them, but I didn’t see them at all this year.

Nice!!!! Recommend a load YOU can't even find ????? TSK, TSK....2 Magic Internet Points demerits for you!!!!

 

[Moonpie]

Some Academies and Cabella’s carried them, but I didn’t see them at all this year.

Found some at the Academy in Webster.
Picked up some 20ga 1oz. #8’s.

 

[digger]

Academy has the Rio game loads on their website but not the high brass "Limited edition"

 

[deemus]

When I hunted dove I used the Winchester Texas dove load.

 

[SloppyShooter]

When I hunted dove I used the Winchester Texas dive load.

I been to the Texas dive!

They called it Showdown back then, only club I ever saw a man shot and killed in.

 

[robertc1024]

Found some at the Academy in Webster.
Picked up some 20ga 1oz. #8’s.

That sounds pretty good. I bought a bunch of their Estate 20ga shells 7/8 oz #7.5s last year and I've had pretty good success with them. Kinda a semi-high brass. My seat-of-the-pants feeling is that I can knock them down at longer distances than some of the other el-cheapo shells I buy.