12ga3” OO buck test group

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Originally Posted by glen

The 20” fixed improved cyl VS 28” with either mod or full choke.
The 20” is good for about 25y.
How far do you think the 28” will be good for?
If you think 40y I might try that.

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The only way to know for sure is to go out and shoot your chosen ammunition through your gun. We can speculate all we want here but nothing beats actually shooting your gun/ammo at varying distances to see the results then staying within your limits to make a clean kill. I take it you are hunting in a controlled hunt wmu that requires shotguns only?

Which states??

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Originally Posted by Fox

The barrel length has no real impact on range, unless your barrel is so short that your velocity is reduced, a 20" barrel will not do that.

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Fox, you have a habit of trying to argue against something, but making statements that argue for it.

Read what you wrote, and I quoted back to you.

A 20" barrel may not be long enough to allow all the powder to burn when using a 3" high brass( heavy powder charge) shell like buckshot or slugs.

Most likely because the hunter was shooting out of range pass 25 yards, would I be correct?

The range of buckshot is 25 - 30 yards max and at that range the deer is dead with buck shot

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Originally Posted by kk1

Slugs all the way. Have seen far too many deer lost to this stuff. Its banned in many if not all states.

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Shot my first deer 42 years ago with buckshot

There a guy on YouTube from Alberta if I remember correctly. Has a bunch of videos using buckshot on deer. Testing different sizes and he is using a short barreled gun. Very informative and surprising. I will try and find them and put up a link.

It's Brobee223 is the username
https://youtu.be/7lj4pzdigi8
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Slug.ssg.slug....works like a charm

Interesting video-
On his second video; he shoots a deer twice and it hops the fence- not a good testimony for the shot I don't think
But he dusted the skeet with the same shells

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Originally Posted by Horridfiber101

Interesting video-
On his second video; he shoots a deer twice and it hops the fence- not a good testimony for the shot I don't think
But he dusted the skeet with the same shells

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He has a few where they die quit quickly too. Everything has an effective range.

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Originally Posted by kickingfrog

The OOD magazine just did an article on buckshot (I can't seem to find it though) with some pattern board info. There's a time and place for it.

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It was in the 2018-19 Hunting Annual. Looks like you ether need to find the magazine or subscribe online.