Put this review of Rio shells here because it relates to duck & goose hunting.....When I went to Canada last year, I had bought & brought Rio 3 1/2" 1 3/8 BBB.....I had never shot them before and figured this would be a good test on the bigger size honkers (I had always used Kent loads).....The 1st morning was very disappointing. Half the shells didn't eject out of my Benelli SBE 2 and the ones that did, didn't seem like they could kill anything.....The 2nd morning I switched guns to my SBE 1 1/2.....Same results.....And that was the end of that experiment till today.
Went up to MMC to work Yeager and while I was there, I decided I would put some of these Rio's on paper.....HOLY CRAP!.....The 1st shot at 40 yds put the wad thru an 1/2" board!.....The 2nd shot didn't eject all the way and that wad went thru the board as well.....Upon review of the 2nd shot wad that Jacob found was the pellets had stuck to the back of the wad and literally went down range connected to the wad.....Hence, enough weight to blow it thru paper and board.....3rd shot was OK, but out of the 87 pellets that were in the shell. Only 57 were on the entire paper. 12 in the bird. Which really isn't that bad at a duck sized target at 40 yds.
I also shot the Rio 3" 1 1/8 4's at 30 yds and the pattern was very nice and no hang-ups (2nd wad picture).
I've since sent an e-mail to Rio to see what their response is.....A few pix.
ps......Saw these little guys too.....lol
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Went up to MMC to work Yeager and while I was there, I decided I would put some of these Rio's on paper.....HOLY CRAP!.....The 1st shot at 40 yds put the wad thru an 1/2" board!.....The 2nd shot didn't eject all the way and that wad went thru the board as well.....Upon review of the 2nd shot wad that Jacob found was the pellets had stuck to the back of the wad and literally went down range connected to the wad.....Hence, enough weight to blow it thru paper and board.....3rd shot was OK, but out of the 87 pellets that were in the shell. Only 57 were on the entire paper. 12 in the bird. Which really isn't that bad at a duck sized target at 40 yds.
I also shot the Rio 3" 1 1/8 4's at 30 yds and the pattern was very nice and no hang-ups (2nd wad picture).
I've since sent an e-mail to Rio to see what their response is.....A few pix.
ps......Saw these little guys too.....lol
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