ORIGINAL: eldeguello
Buckshot is a VERY short-range load at best, and more deer have been wounded with buckshot to die later than with any other kind of deer ammo. It is very ineffective, and inhumane!I lived for several years in a county in Virginia where buckshot was the only ammo alowed, and I witnessed so many horrible failures of this ammo that I refused to continue using it, and only hunted in the Blue Ridge counties where rifles were legal. (Can you tell???, I HATE buckshot!!)
I agree 100%. I was cheap and didn't want to buy a slug gun when I moved to MD. I used 00 on blackwater refuge for sika deer. That stuff had no knockdown power after 30 yards.
I have shot sika wounded with the stuff. And had healed and was full of puss. I won't use it anymore.