Migra Staxd 12ga Pheasant 4 over 6 Load 1-1/4 oz – Proven 25 Round Box

Description

Migra Staxd 12ga Pheasant 4 over 6 is the first high brass stacked load Migra Ammunitions built specifically for pheasant hunters. The hull carries 1.25 ounces of lead at 1350 fps, with number 4 pellets stacked over number 6, so the pattern carries both the density you want on a close flush and the pellet energy you need when a rooster gets up at forty yards. Twenty five rounds per box.

• What Stacking Shot Sizes Actually Does
• Migra Staxd 12ga Pheasant 4 over 6 Specifications
• Honest Notes on Stacked Loads

What Stacking Shot Sizes Actually Does

A conventional shell holds one shot size and you pick it as a compromise. Number 6 gives you pellet count and an even pattern but runs short on energy past thirty five yards. Number 4 hits hard at distance but leaves gaps in the pattern up close. A stacked shot shotshell puts both in the same hull, the heavier pellets loaded so they lead the string, and lets the payload cover more of the useful range rather than one narrow slice of it.

Whether that beats a well chosen single size load is a fair question, and the honest answer is that it depends on how you hunt. If your birds flush at a predictable distance over a good dog, a single size shell patterned to that range is hard to beat. If you are walking cut corn in December and the roosters are getting up wild at forty yards, a stacked load gives you a better answer to an unpredictable shot.

High brass matters here too. The taller brass head handles the heavier powder charge that gets 1.25 ounces to 1350 fps, and Migra pairs it with their own wad and powder selection rather than a generic recipe. This is 12 gauge upland ammunition built for one bird, and it is priced accordingly.

Migra Staxd 12ga Pheasant 4 over 6 Specifications

The shell is a 2 3/4 inch hull, so it works in every 12 gauge chambered for 2 3/4 inch or longer, including older fixed choke guns that are not rated for steel. Lead shot patterns more openly than steel through the same choke, so improved cylinder or modified is usually the right starting point.

• Manufacturer: Migra Ammunitions
• Line: Staxd, Pheasant
• Gauge: 12 gauge
• Shell length: 2 3/4 inches
• Payload: 1.25 ounces of lead shot
• Shot configuration: number 4 stacked over number 6
• Muzzle velocity: 1350 fps
• Hull: high brass
• Quantity: 25 rounds per box
• UPC: 850060794339

Honest Notes on Stacked Loads

Pattern it before you believe it. Stacked loads behave differently through different chokes, and the only way to know what Migra Staxd 12ga Pheasant 4 over 6 does out of your gun is to shoot it at paper at the distances you actually take birds. Thirty five and forty five yards, thirty inch circle, count the pellets. It takes an afternoon and it will tell you more than any marketing claim.

Lead means public land restrictions. A growing number of state wildlife areas and all federal waterfowl production areas require non toxic shot even for upland birds, and lead is not legal there. Check the regulations for the specific property you are hunting before you fill a vest with this ammunition, because the fine does not care that the box says pheasant.

Price is the third honest note. Specialty stacked loads cost meaningfully more per shell than a standard high brass game load, and for a lot of hunting that premium buys very little. If most of your birds come up inside thirty yards over a pointing dog, a straightforward 1.25 ounce number 6 load will kill them just as dead for less money.

Finally, recoil. 1.25 ounces at 1350 fps out of a 2 3/4 inch hull is a stout upland load. In a light over and under carried all day it will let you know about it by the third field, and a shooter who has developed a flinch misses birds that a lighter load would have killed. Match the shell to the gun and to your own tolerance.

Migra also builds a 7.5 over 9 high brass load for quail and early season birds, and the Ultimate Field 6 over 8 covers mixed bag days. Full line details are on the Migra Ammunitions pheasant page.

Migra Staxd 12ga Pheasant 4 over 6 suits late season pheasant hunters, walk up gunners on cut corn and anyone whose birds flush further out than the dog work suggests they should. MAG5 Firearms is a family owned FFL in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Boxes ship where state and local law allows.