Originally Posted by
nchawkeye
You need to pattern it with different chokes and different brands of buckshot...When you find a combination that will put 5-6 in a 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper set horizontal at 40 yards, you've found your load...
Forty yards should also be your maximum range...
As a general rule i have always used 50 yards and a maximum range for buckshot, but i know MANY people who have shot them out to 80 yards..... ( i knOw it sounds ridiculas but i witnessed a 6 point shot from 70 + DROP on the spot... )
But either way just but a few boxes of several brands and test them out to 50 yards IMO.. go with the one that works best. and if your not sein many pellets at 50 yards, then you may in fact have to move in to 40 yards....