If you want larger 16ga for wildfowl must buy Aguila 2 shot andi hunt them ducklings in Mexico as the shot. The only alternative I can think of is HeviShot Classic Doubles that is at least 3 per shot. Would I like to pull down a few "tall ones" with my 32" SuperFox and some of these? Heck yeah. Not sure if it is of consequence, but Nice Shot is made in China and was imported by a company located in Kalifonistan. It was really good, and continues to be, IMO. But, when I went to Arkansas the first time I didn't want to subject my hosts to any embarrassment if I was charged by a warden, so I bought steel. I won't argue for criminality, I'm just being honest. I was hearing so many reports on crippling ducks with the early steel that I decided I was taking the moral high road even if I was a lawbreaker.
I intentionally shot ducks with illegal lead loads until I started hunting in Arkansas about 1996. I can't really compare them to today's steel loads, as I didn't start using steel when the ban on lead for ducks happened. I have heard, and read, that the early steel loads were pretty poor in performance. Last point- I have no idea why RST keeps it on the site - it seems to me to be a poor choice since it annoys folks with false hope the product might somehow become available - which i don't see happening soon- the last proper duck sized bulk Nice Shot I got from the maker was #4's about two years ago, only a few pounds and jealously hoarded for my short tens If you do not reload - i do not see an option outside of RST's bismuth loads- and if i didn't reload I would stock up just in case they cease to be offered If you reload - bismuth is available and data is out there (I reload all my short ten non tox) Kent's products are great performers if you have a gun to handle them. We are, sadly, not a big enough market for sales - think about it- take the number of vintage gun shooters and then subdivide that into the number of us that actually still use these old fowlers for ducks. Kent I believe makes their own (as they do their improved Bismuth) and is not offering it to competitors The issue, as i see it, is that no one is making a similar tungsten shot available in quantities that will allow a small scale commercial loader such as RST to offer a load. Nice Shot was/is a specific product - made by a company in PA- it is a tungsten alloy and in fact in load recipes I have had actually tested - all other things equal, it seems to be very comparable to Kent's TM shot (which is also not available outside of Kent)
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