FED HI-BIRD 12GA 2.75″ #6 25/250

Description

Federal’s Hi-Bird is built for situations where birds are working at the edge of comfortable range — high-flushing pheasants, late-season doves, or decoying pigeons that never quite commit. The load is designed around a two-piece wad that incorporates Federal’s SoftCell technology, which cushions the shot column at ignition. That cushioning serves two purposes: it reduces the sharp spike of felt recoil at the shooter’s end, and it keeps the pellets from deforming against each other during their run down the bore, which pays off in tighter, more consistent patterns at distance.

The lead shot itself is formulated to balance hardness and density rather than optimizing for one at the expense of the other. Harder shot deforms less and retains its spherical shape longer in flight, which keeps the pattern from spreading unevenly. The 1 1/4 oz charge of #6 shot delivers enough pellets downrange to produce dense patterns without sacrificing the per-pellet energy that matters when birds are presenting at the margins of the load’s effective envelope. At 1,330 fps, the velocity is high enough for decisive results on upland game without producing punishing recoil — particularly given the wad’s buffering role. This is a field load that holds up equally well in a sporting clays round where longer crossing presentations demand the same combination of speed and pattern integrity.