Howcome ?

[tjwatty]

Minimum speed? Wow, now that's a tough one.

I used 1 3/8 oz. Winchester steel #2's for years, I believe they were 1350fps and was completely convinced they were the best. The last couple of years I have played with the faster loads and now I like the 1550fps loads from Federal, I still like #2's for most of my waterfowl but have found the 1 1/4oz. loads give me more killing power and I haven't missed that other 1/8 oz.
My turkey loads I still use my trap load with #6 lead, 1150fps. I shoot from a tent blind and have never shot a bird farther than 30yards so big loads just seem to be over kill. With that said I bought a box of 3.5 mag. 6's this year but apparently the turkeys knew I did and stayed away. I might even go and pattern some before next year, smart thing to do, but hay, I've never been accused of that too much.

back to the Minimum thing, I don't think I would want to get to slow with waterfowl loads, them ducks and geese are pretty tough and speed does kill.