ORIGINAL: BigBuck28
i have about 9 our guns and they shoot OO buck awesome but only out to 50 or so yards... if your going for distance get a gun with a choke ont he end and put in a turkey choke. I shoot a benilli superblack eagle with 3 1/2 inch oobuck with a 665 turkey ckoke and have dropped deeer out to 90 yards easy my 2 cents
You are lucky. And that is all...lucky. Not only are you lucky that you killed a deer at 90 yards with buckshot (because there is luck involved, espeically with those super slow 3.5") but also lucky that shooting buckshot through a turkey choke didn't blow the end of the barrel off.
There are infact, guys at my hunt club who make a practice of shooting deer at 100 yards with buckshot. Its 2 3/4" loads (as they are MUCH faster) and typically 00 or 000. What you don't hear about is all of the cripples that get lost, or dead deer that get found a couple of days later. Its honestly sad, and there isn't much anyone can do about it. Buckshot is a 45-50 yard and under tool. Period. I have tested it out of just about everygun, with damn near every choke you could imagine. Written about it, read about it, studied it and fooled with it. I have worked with machinist to make custom chokes, barrels and guns, with custom loads...and save a few RARE exceptions, NOTHING will get the job done 100% of the time past about 50 yards. Anything past that....is just plain luck.