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Let's talk buckshot
Posted on 11/6/13 at 8:00 pm
Posted on 11/6/13 at 8:00 pm
Never deer hunted with a shotgun but we recently moved a stand to a spot that I think is too tight for a scoped rifle. I have an old 870 wingmaster that only takes 2 3/4 shells. What is my realistic range and what size shot should I use?
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Posted on 11/6/13 at 8:03 pm to Tilco Baller
Don't even recall what buckshot I was using, but killed my first buck in swamps off Tangipahoa River at almost 100 yards w an 870 20 gauge. Still don't know how..
Posted on 11/6/13 at 8:06 pm to Tilco Baller
00 buck
Good out to 50 yards easily. A little better than a bow. I've heard of a lot longer shots being made, but 50 yds and in you can basically hold on their withers and do work on them.
Good out to 50 yards easily. A little better than a bow. I've heard of a lot longer shots being made, but 50 yds and in you can basically hold on their withers and do work on them.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 8:07 pm to Tilco Baller
00 buckshot
Posted on 11/6/13 at 8:18 pm to Tilco Baller
Try out the Remington buckshot in 00 buck. Great for 30 yards and will knock email out even further
Posted on 11/6/13 at 8:18 pm to Tilco Baller
I would give slugs a try too. I was planning on shooting slugs out of my crack barrel 20 ga for primitive season but it doesn't look like I'll be off of work. You can get more range out of a slug than buckshot. If you do decide to give them a try and your gun is smooth bore, make sure you get slugs for a smooth bore and not the cool looking hornady sabots, sabots are made for slug guns.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 9:35 pm to Tilco Baller
quote:
Let's talk buckshot
keep pulling the trigger til its empty
Posted on 11/6/13 at 10:25 pm to Tilco Baller
#1 buckshot, more pellets and deadly to 50 yds.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 10:58 pm to Tilco Baller
Normally I'd say 00 but if you have a 2 3/4 limit you may wanna go to something a hair smaller for more pellets. I've killed one with 3 1/2 00 at 50 or so yards. Had to shoot through a bush and only got 2 pellets on target but it ran about 10 steps before cutting a flip.
Posted on 11/7/13 at 12:31 am to Tilco Baller
One of my boys got a doe through some brush at about 75-80 yds with my 870 firing 2 3/4" 00 buckshot. Only 1 pellet hit, but that's all it took. Bitch dropped dead.
Posted on 11/7/13 at 7:55 am to Tilco Baller
Slug backed by 00 buckshot.
Posted on 11/7/13 at 8:09 am to Tilco Baller
I whacked many a nanny fleeing a pack of Walker hounds with some 00 buckshot in my younger days. Usually would put "bear ball" in first then follow with 2 double oughts. One time my daddy gave me the green light to shoot a doe on the last day of the year. Wasn't doe day but he didn't think id see anything. When he heard the shooting and came out to my stand he found two skillet heads flopping on the ground and a blood trail of another 
This post was edited on 11/7/13 at 8:16 am
Posted on 11/7/13 at 11:40 am to Tilco Baller
Turkey shot ftw
Posted on 11/7/13 at 4:10 pm to Tilco Baller
Love deer hunting with buck shot.
Killed my first 3 or 4 deer with 00 buck out of an 870, 2 3/4.
My second biggest buck (which isn't saying much - basket rack 8 inside his ears) was killed right after a big front/wind howling/just put the cigarette I was smoking in the stand out. Lord, that's been over 20 years ago, and I still have that picture of deer walking by in my head. Was pretty much black dark, I have bad eyes, and I finally shot him (my bad eyed self had to "put" horns on him. I knew it was a big bodied deer, and he was "acting" like a buck lol).
PS - I am a horrible shot with a rifle. 00 buck is a little more forgiving than all the rifles I've gone through since.
Killed my first 3 or 4 deer with 00 buck out of an 870, 2 3/4.
My second biggest buck (which isn't saying much - basket rack 8 inside his ears) was killed right after a big front/wind howling/just put the cigarette I was smoking in the stand out. Lord, that's been over 20 years ago, and I still have that picture of deer walking by in my head. Was pretty much black dark, I have bad eyes, and I finally shot him (my bad eyed self had to "put" horns on him. I knew it was a big bodied deer, and he was "acting" like a buck lol).
PS - I am a horrible shot with a rifle. 00 buck is a little more forgiving than all the rifles I've gone through since.
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