Ammo shopping.

[fabsroman]

What TD said, but I would tend to select from the premium lines between the brands. For instance, I would get Winchester Supreme, or Remington Nitro, or Federal's top line and shoot all three of them to see which patterns best.

With that said, if I could find T shot all the time, that is all I would use for goose hunting. I have read plenty of studies that say it is the best for goose hunting because of penetration and patterning, and it seems to work rather well for me. Of course, I can rarely find the stuff and I have barely had time to hunt this year, much less reload Hevi-Shot in the B loads. Now that is a load that will kill a goose quick. I am way too cheap to pay retail for Hevi-Shot at $2+ per shell, so it has been a couple of boxes of steel this year.

By the way, I was forced to buy Remington Sportsman's steel to hunt with, and now I remember why I used to only use it for cripples. It truly does suck unless you have the birds walking around in the decoys.