I also thought of that, thanksAny thing is better than nothing. Buckshot is great #4 will really work...
I also thought of that, thanksAny thing is better than nothing. Buckshot is great #4 will really work...
Have you done this with plastic cased shotgun shells? I suspect the chamber pressure raises dramatically.Could always make "cut shells".
…Use that box to practice with your gun …
I never got the point of those. You get the overpenetration of the slug AND way more spread with the shot than a regular buck load. It's like the worst of both worlds. Their segmented slugs are pretty badass though. For shot, I like federal and hornady because they both use the flitecontrol wad and pattern tight out pretty far."Buck and ball" was a common civil war load too.
Winchester sells mixed PDX Defense loads like that. They have .410 with either 3 or 4 copper disks + shot, and 12g which has a rifled slug + 3 buck shot.
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Basically OG buffered shot, the small pellets improved patterning and kept the buck from deforming as the shot column was compressed. Problem is the small shot didn't do anything on target and slowed the buck velocity, most others used ground corn or something else, modern buck often uses small grains of plastic for the same purpose.There's always the British "Malaya Load" used to combat Malayan communists during the insurrection there many years ago. While I don't have the exact recipe...it's essentially #4 Buck mixed with #6 birdshot. They used it to great effect in jungle combat.
I've no idea whether there's any commercially loaded version of it or if it has to be a home brew.
No one's over thinking this! Nooooooooo!You are all overthinking this.
5.56 out of an AR. It's as easy as that.
Ruh Roh!
Not another birdshot/self defense thread!