Is It Good Enough? Remington Nitro Turkey 2-3/4" 1.5oz #5 Test W/ 11-87 & Avian-X Crusher .665 

That's definitely a choke I would like to test as some point

The 3.5" shells never did give me any kind of good pattern whatsoever. These 2-3/4" versions are noticeably better, but still not as good as I'd like them to be

They seem like they are right on the edge of being something decent, but are missing something small that would actually help them out. And yeah, you are more than welcome to send those shells if you would like to. All the info for that is in the video description

I don't think they would be anything great just based off how they've done so far, but you never know I guess. Maybe that's something we can test at some point

I think we can make that happen

I have never shot anything through a buck kicker, but it's definitely something I have on the list that I want to test at some point

If Remington plated the pellets in these shells, that small detail might be the little thing needed to make the difference in how they pattern. These 2-3/4" versions seem to be close to the edge of throwing a decent pattern, but just feel like they're missing something, which could be plated shot

That could definitely make sense

Would it have worked, sure, but we've already tested these loads a bunch of different times in a bunch of their different versions and in different setups and they have never been great. That's why I didn't expect anything impressive from them to begin with

@@matttyreeoutdoors that may be, but you can't go into it with that mindset, because all it takes is one time to possibly prove that theory wrong. Make sure all things are done the same way including where you aim before coming to that conclusion. Every time

@AnthonyAnania That's why I don't just do one test in one video with one shell. I test the whole box through a bunch of different chokes and setups to see if something works well together. Once you pattern shells as much as I have over the years, you can kinda look at previous performances as well as the components the shell is loaded with and pretty much have a basic idea as to how it will perform. If I didn't think there might be a combo out there that works well with these shells, I would have stopped testing them a long time ago. I always hope that a poor shell will prove me wrong, but that still has never happened with these shells

It isn't great, but it's not the worst we've seen either. That title would have to go to the B&P turkey shells