75 feet = 25 inches. The round ball isn't very aerodynamic. If I remember correctly, theres only 75 feet per second difference. Ideally, test several buckshot loads in your shotgun to find one that delivers the pattern and number of holes in the target you feel is best for your needs. For the purposes of this report, the definition of buckshot is broken out into two categories: deformed and spherical. Buckshot is the primary load carried by law enforcement in shotguns and what you'll find stuffed in many scatterguns kept for home defense. This test consists of firing a .177 caliber steel sphere (BB) into the gelatin block at 590 feet per second (fps) +/- 15 fps. The 00 buckshot he used was not standard velocity, but actually reduced velocity. Price: $8.49 per 5-rnd. Buckshot pellets must be copper-plated or made of high antimony lead and feature an effective wadding system in order to be considered to fall into the performance category of spherical buckshot. With the help of a big guy with a thick shoulder, I conducted a test using six, 12-gauge buckshot loads to see how patterns spread from 5 to 25 yards. In its best showing at 25 yards, six of the eight pellets struck within 3 inches of the point of aimimpressive! Three shots at 50 yards. The more the payload weighs, the more recoil you'll experience. The vast majority of police shootings are close-in affairs. One issue is that no one uses a full choke on a defensive shotgun, IC is the tightest that is practical for defensive use. We headed out to the range to find out with three representative shotguns. #shotgun #12gauge #remington870In this video I shoot 2 3/4\" 00 Buckshot at 25, 50, and even 100 yards. From the onset, let's put this "standard" into perspective. Results and Conclusion: I was stunned by this shells performance. Concerning the aforementioned Boar Blaster choke tube, its optimized for use with 00 and 000 buckshot. Carlsons and others also make buckshot-specific choke tubes. In fact, on one target, all pellets fell within 7 inches of the point of aim at 35 yards. I should mention that the stock of the Mossberg 500 prevented me from getting down on the bead sights as much as I wouldve liked, so I tended to shoot a little high using the same center-mass target. The impact velocity versus penetration depth in ballistic gelatin for all evaluated buckshot types are below in Figure 10. We also have to understand that shotguns may pattern differently. 12-Gauge Gunfight: How to Win With Your Favorite Tactical Shotgun. This falls off to 7.5 and 3.3 hits at 40 yards. In fact, at 25 yards, the 14-inch-barreled 590A1 produced a pattern 1-inch smaller than the 500. We got out the ballistic gelatin and did some testing at 25, 50, and 100 yards to find out. JOHN: Would you still be hitting stuff at that distance? My personal take away from this test is that 00 buckshot tended to stay ontarget better asdistances grew. Got agun that's collecting dust? CHRIS: I think the gel blocks are 6x6 and at 100, we put two of them side by side so we had a 12x6 area were trying to hit with a big buckshot spread thats only eight pellets. JOHN: So, still potentially lethal absolutely. Try testing #1 buckshot. This particular shotgun has been customized by 870 maestro Hans Vang of Vang Comp Systems. Grandpa used to tell me that buckshot spreads 1 for every yard from gun. Or how about Open Range, the 2003 movie starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall? An updated version of a very versatile holster. Some big news for trigger pullers recently from the Civilian Marksmanship Program. If you are the intended victim, you will not have the element of surprise nor the initiative in the opening moments of the conflict two elements critical to the survival of such an event. Theres been a lot of interest in shotguns recently, so we decided to test two of the morepopular home defense shotgun rounds -00 buckshot and high-velocity steel BB shot. At moderate ranges (20 yards), the loads had an average spread of around 9 to 17 inches. Movies can be entertaining and those mentioned are worth watching, but dont look to Hollywood for accurate gunplay. The same concept of bird shot applies here, you can hit with more pellets that will do nothing, or not enough. Close patterns and solid hits are ideal, the spread is nice, but a good central hit with a tight group brings out the true effectiveness of the round. The tested Mossberg 590 had a cylinder bore which was boresighted with a Site Lite SL-500 Ultra Mag Green Laser Boresighter to coincide with a SIG ROMEO4 red dot sight at 25 yards distance. Contact me at nyprepper85@gmail.com to speak anonymously and share any information you feel would be good to share with my audience. Plating aids hardness and/or reduces friction for deeper penetration. 4 (0.240-inch) to 0000 (0.380-inch)a single, well-aimed payload of buckshot provides a hunter the opportunity of inflicting tremendous damage to vital organs and structures for rapid expiration. An average load of 8 pellet 00 buckshot weighs 437 gains. Were doing something a little different today. That particular target was the result using the Boar Blaster choke. At our distances this would mean: 12 feet = 4 inches. Wide flyers were a given with all loads. Ammunition Tested Is buckshot lethal at 50 yards? Copyright 2023 National Rifle Association, Women On Target Instructional Shooting Clinics, Volunteer At The Great American Outdoor Show, Marion P. Hammer Women Of Distinction Award, Women's Wildlife Management / Conservation Scholarship, National Youth Shooting Sports Cooperative Program, Remington offers an eight-pellet Managed-Recoil, 00-buck load, Federal's Personal Defense, Copper-Plated, nine-pellet 00-buck load, Review: Federal Premium Force X2 Buckshot, 3 Self Defense Myths That Just Won't Go Away | NRA Family, The Armed Citizen February 17, 2023 | An Official Journal Of The NRA, The Armed Citizen February 10, 2023 | An Official Journal Of The NRA, NRA Women | The Armed Citizen January 20, 2023, What Does Mindset Actually Mean? Enough so to give you a shot spread about the size of two fists. And either [load is still meeting] the FBI standards. Answer (1 of 5): What's better, slugs or buckshot? Keep Reading. The heavily buffered pellets are propelled by a two-piece wad with cuts approximately half the length of the shot cupa reason as to why it patterned so tightly. Buckshot traveling fast enough to make incapacitating hit at this range (12.0 or deeper penetration in nominal 10% ballistic gelatin). For the recoil shy, and those without a specialized choke, this is a top choice. When I began deer hunting we ran deer with dogs and used only shot guns with buck shot. Semi-automatic and striker-fired, the P320-XTEN is extremely accurate, easy to shoot even with powerful 10mm loads and holds 15-plus-one rounds. I did some shooting with Royal #4 buckshot. Results and Conclusion: This was a standout among those tested. All comments are held for moderation and will appear after approval. Otherwise, one ends up all over the map. box at MidwayUSA.com. 30 feet = 10 inches. When hunting land animals with spreading shot, the only choke in existence for the task is full choke. Here it might be better to use a slug. The Fora platform includes forum software by XenForo. Several conclusions emerge from the results in Figure 10: To determine the effects of aerodynamic drag on the velocity of a buckshot pellet as it moves downrange, the velocity of the single-launched buckshot pellets was measured by LabRadar Doppler radar (Figure 11). Mean radius is defined as the average of the straight line distances between the Center-of-Shot-Group and each shot (USARIEM TECHNICAL NOTE TN-01/2 STATISTICAL MEASURES OF MARKSMANSHIP Richard F. Johnson Military Performance Division February 2001 U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine) and was determined by utilizing OnTarget TDS software (OnTarget TDS). This shotgun is a version of what the NYPD highway officers carry. Easily. 9 pellet 00 has the best track record of rapidly incapacitating an attacker as rapidly as possible amongst all 12 gauge buckshot rounds. Results: Premium buckshot averaged 12.4 pellets in a 30-inch circle at 40 yards, whereas unbuffered buck averaged 11 hits. At long ranges, even 45 yards, you will miss with more pellets that you will hit with. Many still believe they are the most feared guns and put a lot of stock in what I consider an urban legend. Here's what it's like to shoot this classic scattergun. Even with reduced-recoil 00 buckshot, the 1 inch per yard pattern seems improbable. Thought we would try shooting some 00 Buck from close up and from about 25 yards away to see the spread out of a Remington 870 shotgun with a 16 inch police barrel. This created devilishly destructive wound cavitiesnot just holes like the lead bullets of the past. 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Recoil has to be considered for a defensive gun. Although he misses the bad guy with his shot, he hits a sign that falls down and whacks the guy. Let us know in the comments below. viewtopic.php?f=7&t=207633&p=1721494#p1721494, http://le.atk.com/pdf/Shotshell_Data_Book.pdf, http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/34353-5.html. Results and Conclusion: This shoulder-jarring load opened my eyes to recoilits the equivalent of a 1-ounce turkey loadand excellent patterning. Compared to #4 buck or other lesser-known types, it's very easy to get your hands on - and it's common to go on sale (especially bulk 00 buckshot). We also tested the impact of the rounds on 1/4-gallon water bottles at the same distances. a 12-gauge shotshell can muster when a long 30- to 60-yard shot is the rule rather than the exception. All objects lose velocity as they travel through the air. The number of the 0.33-inch-diameter pellets contained within the shell depends on its length; the utilitarian 2-inch usually holds eight to 12 pellets, depending on whether a wad with a cushion section and shot cup is utilized. Classic Browning Light Twelve Auto-5 Review: Busting Clays With the Old Humpback Shotgun. The next test platform was a Mossberg 500 with an 18-inch barrel and bead sights. At 50 yards you need slugs, or better yet a rifle. It has also been proposed that, at distances beyond 25 yards, the pellets would not have sufficient energy to stop a suspect or, for instance, penetrate their leather coat. Check out Guns.com. This may be true for reduced-recoil buckshot, but this max-velocity load seemed to have sufficient energy to truly put a hurt on a suspect. Browning BT-99 Shotgun Review: Stylish Break-Action Single. They want to take your guns because they plan to do something to you that might cause you to shoot them. Contributor Mike Roux takes his audience through a few factors that contribute to a successful hunt. CHRIS: Hey guys, I am Chris from LuckyGunner.com, here with John Johnston from Citizens Defense Research. Odin01 - thank you for doing this testing and posting the results. At 25 yards, the Hornady shells produced consistently tight patterns without abusive (but still noticeable) recoil. 1. Most used full chokes and my guns always shot best with #1 buck. Theres so much misinformation, it doesnt seem to want to go away. A hit in this instance is a hit to the target that would be counted for qualification at FLETC. You have more pellets, but less energy per pellet. Coarse buffering is present for preservation of pellet roundness. Therefore, you must test them in your gun to verify reliable cycling, or use them in a pump-action, single-shot or double (over-under/side-by-side). Just something they had at the range. The pellets are contained with a traditional-type wad and buffered to reduce deformation during firing. Required fields are marked *. Tighter chokes will allow for greater hit probability at distance but will likely increase drag by deforming the pellets - reducing penetration of target. The rule for shotgun patterning has been that you usually get about 1 inch of spread for every yard from the target. Since there is no difference in the long range performance of the two shells, we recommend the Federal LE132 1B load to maximize range and minimize recoil for the defensive shotgun. The buffered, extra-hard buckshot is contained within a two-piece wad with full-length cuts made to the shotcup. Most commonly, 12-gauge shotguns are the go-to choice for defensive purposes when a shotgun is needed, and have from 27 No. I know that [#00 buckshot] penetrates a little more at 10 feet in the standard test, and for us, we verified that. I just found this; thank you! 4s to eight 000s. One of TFBs resident Jarheads, Nathan now works within the firearms industry. As lightly noted by the presenter, the gauge doesnt matter much as far as energy delivered to target by projectiles. Hit probability was determined by shooting a Mossberg 590 from a shooting bench at various distances from a FLETC Transitional Target II with the (5) different cartridge types. It was a lot of work to put together but I think the results are worth it. CHRIS: Yeah, theyre around 1100 feet per second. The fame it gained on stagecoaches is where the term "riding shotgun" originated. You can hit more, and each pellet will do less, to the terminal end of losing its effectiveness at all. The 3-inch is a compromise. It is not intended for use with loads featuring the FliteControl and Versatite wads. Learn its limitations so that you can operate more effectively in an actual shooting. If I remember correctly. While pellets are not bullets, that is significant. This is getting big enough that, unless carefully aimed, many pellets will miss a bad guy. Nine-pellet #00 buckshot (standard military buckshot) spread is approximately 8 feet diameter at 100 yards (or about 2.5 meters at 100 meters) an. The BB shot spreadmuch more and, being smaller, hadless impact power at greater distances. But something to consider! Only through patterning process will you find the best choke for your selected load. The application referred to here is exactly the one I was looking for and also the exact distances: perfect! The single buckshot pellets were acquired from shotshells shot from a SAAMI 12 gauge test barrel (24 length, cylinder bore) into a cotton soft-catch box (Figure 1) and were then handloaded and shot into gelatin from low-pressure handgun cartridges (Figures 2, 3, and 4) at a wide range of velocities. box at basspro.com. Only the back-bored barrel was close to the 1 claim, coming in at .96 per yard. Shotguns increase hit probability by launching multiple projectiles per trigger pull but the limitation is that shotshells can only hold so many spheres or pellets. Most stock barrels were less than .5 per yard. Since it employed the Versatite wad, I restricted testing to the extended, Trulock 0.700-inch and 0.710-inch aftermarket chokes, as well as the factory, flush-fitting Benelli 0.703-inch tube. The complete Paper dimension the B-27 Target is printed on is 24" X 45". Generally found in 3-inch shells, 000 is considerably less popular than its smaller sibling. RifleShooter, however, was not content with the same assumptions. Do notice that at longer ranges, the shotgun loses its ability to kill very rapidly. CHRIS: If its the only we could come up with some scenario where it makes sense but its going to be pretty rare. Three shots at 35 yards. JOHN: Right. Theballs also seemed to retain more power. The remaining shotshells were shot at 40 yards distance. Reply Quote. Granted, smaller shot limits penetration, but inside 30 feeta reasonable in-home engagement distanceany shotshell load is nasty, but when used at contact distance they're almost immoral. We didnt test it because birdshot lacks sufficient energy to penetrate at distances beyond close range and is not carried in serious social shotguns. I took him for his word, but suspected he was wrong after patterning my 870 and 930 shotguns. On the other hand, Remington offers an eight-pellet Managed-Recoil, 00-buck load at 1,200 fps with recoil half that of the Magnum load. Ive got a Beretta 1301 that actually patterns with #1 at 25 about like what your barrel was doing, so probably about the same thing for that particular gun, but Ive got other shotguns that dont pattern like that. You can, and its nice to know that the spread will not be too large to recklessly endanger a neighborhood. JOHN: Yeah, and the whole point of what did we want to know was just, flat out, not is it appropriate to shoot this distance not anything other than what does it do?. If you have a personal-defense shotgun or one assigned to you, go out with the load you intend to carry and pattern the shotgun. I have never seen an 8 pellet load in 00 buck for 12 gauge. A follow-on test would include #1 buckshot and standard velocity 00 buckshot. And then when we got out to 100 the #00 was doing what the #1 was doing at 50, which was kind of interesting to me. The number of pellets per shell is governed by their size and their weight. Mossberg 20" cylinder bore, 7 shot magazine Persuader: OK a few slug shots for those of you who want tighter patterns. Brass Fetcher Ballistic Testing recently conducted an eye-opening ballistic gelatin test of buckshot at 50 yards distance. Ill have to find out if my shotgun will accept a choke to tighten up the pattern as none of us can afford new guns. Of course, as noted by many recently, including the iconic Paul Harrell,while sometimes deadly, birdshot should not be used for self-defense. And effective includes that combination/trade-off between fight-stopping hits and liable fliers. At 10 feet distance it is routine for not all of the buckshot pellets to spread out enough to cut independent paths through the gelatin and this skews the penetration depth figure in the direction of deeper penetration. Through the use of a plated and buffered shot, a rear braking wad design, and low recoil, Federal's 8 pellet FLITECONTROL load generally delivers exceptional patterns even at 25 yards out of otherwise unremarkable shotguns. [Part 2], Sig Sauer P365-380 Review: Its Fun to Go Fast. Shooting again at 25 yards, the 18-inch-barreled 500 created a 6.5-inch pattern while the 14-inch-barreled 590A1 produced a 14-inch pattern. A small increase in effective range will occur in hot climates and a moderate decrease in range will occur in extreme cold climates. The pellets would be less likely to over penetrate at that range, especially plain lead. Price: $8.49 per 5-rnd. Some suggest, and I agree, that more common game loads or smaller buckshot can be better in a home-defense situations. A forum community dedicated to Shotgun owners and enthusiasts including the Remington, Beretta, and Mossberg shotguns brands. Moreover, when utilized in dense cover, the odds that one or more projectiles penetrate the flora unaffected is greatly increased over the single rifle bullet or slug. The measurements were taken using the two widest pellets of the 00 buckshot load. As a matter of fact, all of the shotguns easily kept all nine pellets within a standard 19-inch-wide target at 75 feet. I chalked my results up to long barrels and modern technology, never putting the assertion to a comprehensive test. Heres how to avoid the poseurs and choose the right one. First, it was the only one utilizing a non-traditional-type wad. It seems that in the oldest question of weight vs. number, 00 buckshot has been the drawn line in the sand. What to KnowAvailable in multiple diameterstypically ranging from No. A 12-gauge, 2-inch load generally contains from 21 to 34 pellets, while the 3-inch variant is loaded with a whopping 41. CHRIS: I dont know if you guys know about the #1 FliteControl, but its a difficult load to get ahold of, so we didnt have a whole lot of it on hand. And its nasty at close range. Duvalls character, Boss Spearman, fires at a bad guy outside a shack wall from inside a small room. How effective is buckshot at extended ranges? If pressed into service at that distance, it would certainly get the job done; however, it did open noticeablygenerally a pair or trio of pellets were within 6 inches or less of the point of aim. Follow Lucky Gunner Lounge from your Inbox! In order to provide a further verification check, a Winchester 1300 12 gauge with 28 barrel (cylinder bore) was shot at 25 yards distance from 10% ballistic gelatin blocks with all shotshell types used in this report. The Boar Blasters impact with it was marginal, too. (Extrapolated from another figure for 35 pelets). Let us make you an offer. However, to get more shot inside a shell, the shot needs to be smaller. box at basspro.com. All three shotguns created patterns measuring 1.5 inches or less at 12 feet. The targets are about half scale from the blue B27s. The shots were taken as a baseline at the FBI standard distance of 10 feet between muzzle and gelatin block. Im glad that you all like the video. JOHN: But not passing the FBI standards. So we set up a couple of blocks and shot it at ten feet. Please be respectful of others. But this is about the effective range of it, any further you are taking risks of under penetration, and vast spreads that may not hit anything, at least effectively. Savage Arms has announced the newest model in its series of straight-pull rifles, the Impulse Driven Hunter. Counter to this is No. That the 1 inch of spread for every yard rule has pretty much been busted. The information provided here does not represent the views of Cheaper Than Dirt! The final shotgun was a Remington 870. Forget about 20 gauge with anything larger than #3 buckshot. Most hunters, tactical shooters and personal-protection practitioners are familiar with 00 buckshot, which is the preferred size in 12-gauge. No one in their right mind should use a long barrel shotgun for in home security/protection, unless that is all they have. This video shows the results. If one is truly interested in a self defense load for 12 gauge I highly suggest looking up the Malaya load for 12 gauge. 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