Hunting Deer w/ Buckshot
#4
RE: Hunting Deer w/ Buckshot
deer drive is a way of hunting.....usually done with dogs,but i have seen it done with about 20 people....they'll chase the deer through the woods and if the hunters done their homework, hopefully the deer will pass by them for a shot...
i've killed a few hogs with it, but never a deer...
i've killed a few hogs with it, but never a deer...
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
RE: Hunting Deer w/ Buckshot
Dixon...Just like a rifle, you need to shoot to see what the gun prefers...Not all guns are good at holding a pattern with buckshot...
Here is how I pattern...Get a target large enough to hold a news paper page, open the page just like you are going to read it, staple to the target and then take a 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper and staple it horizontal (sideways) in the middle of your newspaper, this is about the size of a deer's lung area...Back off 40 yards and take a shot, aiming at the
8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper...
Try different brands ammo and sizes, when you can consistantly put 4-6 pellets into the 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper, you have found your load...
My 3 inch Browning B-80 prefers the improved cylinder choke and 3 inch Mag Winchester Supreme 00 Buck...My Remington 1100 2 3/4 chamber deer slug shotgun prefers Winchester Supreme #1 Buck, of course in 2 3/4 inch shells...Either 00,0 or #1 buck are fully capable of killing deer if you hit them with 5-6 pellets in the lung area, within 40 yards...
Here is how I pattern...Get a target large enough to hold a news paper page, open the page just like you are going to read it, staple to the target and then take a 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper and staple it horizontal (sideways) in the middle of your newspaper, this is about the size of a deer's lung area...Back off 40 yards and take a shot, aiming at the
8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper...
Try different brands ammo and sizes, when you can consistantly put 4-6 pellets into the 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper, you have found your load...
My 3 inch Browning B-80 prefers the improved cylinder choke and 3 inch Mag Winchester Supreme 00 Buck...My Remington 1100 2 3/4 chamber deer slug shotgun prefers Winchester Supreme #1 Buck, of course in 2 3/4 inch shells...Either 00,0 or #1 buck are fully capable of killing deer if you hit them with 5-6 pellets in the lung area, within 40 yards...
#9
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: Hunting Deer w/ Buckshot
I've killed over 100 deer with buckshot and almost every one was with 00 buck. That is what my gun patterned best. I knew a lot of people that preferred #1.