12G / 00 Buckshot / Drop
#11
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 122
RE: 12G / 00 Buckshot / Drop
Make sure to pattern your gun before using buckshot. Some guns will shoot tight patterns at 30 yards others will not. Try a few different shells and buckshot sizes. I've had great luck with Federal Copper plated 00 buck
#13
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: 12G / 00 Buckshot / Drop
Get a box or two of shells and some target paper and see what kind of pattern your gun shoots. All full chokes do not pattern the same. I would try to keep it within 50 yards also.
#14
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blissfield MI USA
Posts: 5,293
RE: 12G / 00 Buckshot / Drop
You will never know until you shoot YOUR gun with that load. That will tell you where to aim at what distance and what sort of pattern you will get. You could probably extend your range a bit beyond 30 yards though with a full choke, shoot it and see. 40 or so is probably pretty doable but anything beyond 50 with buck shot is just reckless in my opinion. If you are going to shoot that far just use slugs.
Paul
Paul
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hampton Virginia
Posts: 1,607
RE: 12G / 00 Buckshot / Drop
I am only allowed to use buckshot so I have never killed a deer any other way. This will be my 22 season using buckshot and I am very comfortable shooting out to 50 yards. I have killed deer further but do not like to try it. I use a remington 870 3 1/3 and have a Kicks Industry Buck Kicker choke tube and it really tightens things up and I have patterned good out to 60 yards very constantly.