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hey guys im from indiana and have never had a chance to shoot 00 up there but down here in NC its legal im not so much interested in using it as letting my wife use it in a H&R Tracker smoothbore i have and i might carry it when im hunting in the deep thick woods my question is what is the best to use i see some have 9 pellets some have 12 or 15 and whats my range gonna be out of a 12 gauge using 00

It is best to pattern different loads and see which one hold the best pattern. OO buck is some wicked stuff up to about 40 yards.

The Federal "Vital-Shok with Flitecontrol" shoot the tightest patterns in most guns. They have a 9 pellet 2.75" and 12 pellet 3" loads, both at 1325 fps.

They run a LOT of deer with dogs here in north Florida and there are over a million acres of land where they can do it and although I use a scoped rifle, the most popular weapon of choice is an autoloader or pump 12 guage shooting 3" magnum shells with #1 buck and although there are a pretty large percentage of the deer wounded that require follow up shots (sometimes SEVERAL LOL) there still are a lot of deer killed.

They are often shot running out to 100 yards and most people aim for the head and neck which of course ends up messing up a lot of racks but then our racks aren't all that great anyway... LOL

I consider the effective range for buckshot in a well patterned shotgun to be under 40 yards but every rule has it's exceptions and some shotgun/shell combinations yield some enourmously tight patters that hold together remarkably well waaaaaay out there.

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What would a good choke to shoot 00 out of be

Full Choke for 00 , but myself i prefer Number 4 Buck for deer

I couldn't imagine being on public land with a bunch of 'brown-downers' dumping a bunch of that chit down range at every bush that jiggles.

If you can find some of the remington LEO 00 2&3/4" reduced recoil loads. They are unplated 9 pellet at just over 1100.

I bet there ara lot of wounded deer if they are shooting buckshot at running deer at 100 yards with buckshot !
Buckshot is normally a 50 yard and less proposition with a lot less being better ! Say 3O yards or so is where the stuff is normally used.

my ex brother in law told me he killed a deer with buckshot at 100 yards and I told him if anyone else had told me that I would have told them they must be living right!
Or else it was just that deers day to die as Buckshot is not a 100 yard deer load,running or standing.
Craig

My old 12 gauge with screw in chokes shoots the 00 better with the modified tube screwed in, #4's shoot better for me in full choke.

All time fav is the Winchester X12C1B, it's a 2.75" #1 copper plated buckshot, 20 copper plated #1 shot in a 2.75" hull is a helluva payload on deer under 50 yards.

Have also flipped coyotes a 180 from the ground too, it's a rough customer of a load, and also the one's I have in my old 10-shot pump house guns.

Gunner

I have always gotten tighter groups with full choke and 00 . I would pattern with full, mod and IC and see which worked best in the shotgun i was going to use them in. All shotguns seem to have their preference when it comes to chokes and a particular shot load

True Bea, have ya ever busted a coyote with a load of buckshot coming in on a hard quarter at 15 yards?, damn thats fun.

Gunner

Get some freezer paper and put out about a 3ft square area as a target. try chokes and diffrent shells to see what shoots best. Every gun is diffrent. I did kill two north carolina does in front of the dogs with 2-3/4 federal flight control buckshot out a benelli yesterday though. A shotgun is hell on a deer in thick cover.

Hornady Tap or Federal Premium with the flight control wad shoot considerable tighter patterns than anything I've tested. The manufacturer recomends imp cyl choke. I got nearly one hole patterns at 15yds with that combination in my M2 Tactical.

I have never killed a coyote with shot any larger than number 5's.

When I had to use a shotgun, I found my modified barrel shot #1 buck better than 0 or 00

Wish buckshot was legal here. Got a good Cannon County 7-point @ 21 yards today w AR. Barnes Vortyx 55-gr. TSX exploded his heart and he went only 35 yards before collapsing, but I'll bet a 54-pellet 4 Buck 3.5-in. Outta my Xtrema2 would have crushed him in his tracks...

We also have the illogical "nothin bigger than T-shot for coyotes" rule here, too.

Well I tend to be just a tad out of the box, that sead. I hunted MT general season with this year a mossberg HD 12cylinder bore 3" 00 buck. Thoungh it took some time( the last day) but I did get an perfict 2x2 muly at 32yds hight shoulder and wow no tracking.

what's it like field dressing one of these broadside I.E.D. deer?

guacamole city?


uggghhh!!!



well... i suppose it dont't matter if the meat is going to a poor vietnamese family- they actually prefer bile splattered meat. lol

Not bad at the range I got mine. It is kind of like the true blackpowder ball. You can eat right up and to the hole, though I had eight out of the possible 15.