12 ga Buckshot
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Infrequent Shooter
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single 0 is pretty special
Rube Shooter
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Thanks for the info. New to shotgun loading and there is nothing definitive concerning loading buckshot on the net that I have read so far. I have the components and gathering the gear to do this and I want to make sure I do it right.
AckleymanII
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Go to You tube, type in Bubba Round Tree outdoors. Wade is a wealth of knowledge on loading buckshot.
Ballistic Products is the place to start looking for components for loading buckshot.
For coyote, fox, and bob cats, T shot, F Buck, and #4 buck are great, molds are available from Sharpshooter supply for odd size. Cast your buckshot from Wheel weights, they will be hard.
#1 buckshot molds from Sharpshooter supply and Lee are superb for self-defense. 1 1/4 oz of #1 equals 14 pellets, and they stack very nicely in standard wads. My load is 32g of Long shot, 14 pellets of #1, with a Rem RP wad in most Remington 2 3/4" shells with a velocity of 1400 fps, standard fold crip. This load is very capable of taking deer and hogs, and I shoot an extra full choke in my 1100 and 11/87 with this #1 buck load.
Ballistic Products is the place to start looking for components for loading buckshot.
For coyote, fox, and bob cats, T shot, F Buck, and #4 buck are great, molds are available from Sharpshooter supply for odd size. Cast your buckshot from Wheel weights, they will be hard.
#1 buckshot molds from Sharpshooter supply and Lee are superb for self-defense. 1 1/4 oz of #1 equals 14 pellets, and they stack very nicely in standard wads. My load is 32g of Long shot, 14 pellets of #1, with a Rem RP wad in most Remington 2 3/4" shells with a velocity of 1400 fps, standard fold crip. This load is very capable of taking deer and hogs, and I shoot an extra full choke in my 1100 and 11/87 with this #1 buck load.
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1400fps is moving. Do you use any shot buffer?
Great stuff from Ballistics Product!!! Used their products for making 3 inch mags in my old 1100 mag 30inch full choke 12 gauge goose gun before the lead ban on hunting migratory water fowl!!! Buffering tightens the pattern and seems to make a slightly tighter consistent cone with great shot density!!! Use to make baby mags out of 2-3/4" federal gold hulls for extremely cold upland hunting!!! 1-1/2 oz 6 shot at 1400fps!!! Worked great in the mag action with the small gas port!!!
A little history lesson on the evolution of steel shot!!! The 1st year of goose hunting with steel shot (MANDATORY) was very disappointing!! I would rock geese and they would continue flying a 1/4 mile to a mile away before dropping!!! Spent more time trying to find downed birds than actually hunting!!! The following year, OPENING DAY, I downed one bird on the 1st shot!! Second shot I rocked another bird and I followed up with another shot on that same bird!!! That shot, put me on the ground with a painful, later badly bruised shoulder!! And the sound of that round was like a canon and echoed off the dam and surrounding bluffs!! My hunting party looked at me and the gun with dropped jaws!!! A couple of them went and retrieved the 2 birds!! A few minutes later, I started looking through the translucent hulls and found 6 rounds that looked different than the rest!!! Cut one open and discover the steel shot had fused the shot tougher with rust!!! Yeah, A rusty steel slug forced through a full choke cone!!! After inspecting the gun, the round anti cant barrel lug in the receiver had fattened!!! The rust did not scratch the chrome moly bore!!! Picked up those loaded shells and threw them in the lake!!! Never hunted geese after that!!! SO PISSED AT PETA and environmentalist!!! Injure the game, self terminate the hunter!!! Winning combo for the tree huggers and PETA!!!!!
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AckleymanII
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Lee just came out with a #1 buckshot mold, and I have both the lee and sharp shooter molds in #1.
I do not use buffer for self defense loads, but would for deer and hogs.
I quit hunting ducks when they went to steel. WE had loads that would knock honkers out of the sky at 125 yards with T super hard lead shot from Ballistic Products.
Lee buck shot are round, you can run them though the tumbler to make them perfectly round, but for self defense at 40-50 yards, no need to tumble.
I do not use buffer for self defense loads, but would for deer and hogs.
I quit hunting ducks when they went to steel. WE had loads that would knock honkers out of the sky at 125 yards with T super hard lead shot from Ballistic Products.
Lee buck shot are round, you can run them though the tumbler to make them perfectly round, but for self defense at 40-50 yards, no need to tumble.
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