Take a look on You Tube at
Bubbaroundtree
This guy really knows his stuff on buckshot loads. He has buckshot loads for distances you will just have to see him shoot to believe, and they run deer with dogs in shot gun areas.
Steel is a powder that is coming on strong.
Roll Crimps reduces pressure on a given load, if that is good or bad depends on the load. Roll Crimping, trimming hulls, making your own wads for use with gas seals from Ballistic products can be fun.
Turkey chokes in my 11/87 and Mossburg 500 produces long range patterns that are impressive, but you do not always want a tight pattern.
I have poured #4 and 00 from Lee molds, they are good molds and perform well. You can use Alox lube on the buckshot which is a mess, or powder coat the buckshot for decreasing spreads.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bubba+rountree+outdoors+
