Thread: 20g ammo advice

Originally Posted by Chippychow

Yea that’s the idea, oh really I thought I mite be able to tip over a deer at 40 yards or so. Have you had any experience with filling them with wax or something, any idea if it would hold together until it was at least out of the can.

Ha Ha, the old bushmans solid, my grandad used to do this with duck shot prise the top open and dribble wax from a candle in till it was full, it used to come out as a solid lump most of the time. I wouldnt risk it in your silencer though.
If it were me Id forget the idea of the silencer for buck shot too much chance of an accident.
As to range, it spreads out like a normal shot load but instead of a couple of hundred pellets you have only 9 so game sized holes occurr pretty quickly. From shooting at paper, I would not use 00 buck past 15 yards, yes the pellets have enough energy 200 ftlb each to drop medium game but they have to hit either in enough numbers or just one somewhere vital to be humane, at 40 yards maybe only 1or 2 might hit an animal.
The 20 gauge I think only goes to no 3 buck and they only weigh 23 grains each compared to the 54 grains of 00 and have only one third the energy even if the speeds the same.
So i would limit buck to goats etc at no further than 15 yards, however a solid from a 20 gauge has a bit of authority and would probably be of more use, would go through the silencer and with rifle sights could be good out to 100 plus. Hope this helps, and yes lets see a photo.
By the way whats the reason for wanting to use buck?

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Ha Ha, the old bushmans solid, my grandad used to do this with duck shot prise the top open and dribble wax from a candle in till it was full, it used to come out as a solid lump most of the time. I wouldnt risk it in your silencer though.
If it were me Id forget the idea of the silencer for buck shot too much chance of an accident.
As to range, it spreads out like a normal shot load but instead of a couple of hundred pellets you have only 9 so game sized holes occurr pretty quickly. From shooting at paper, I would not use 00 buck past 15 yards, yes the pellets have enough energy 200 ftlb each to drop medium game but they have to hit either in enough numbers or just one somewhere vital to be humane, at 40 yards maybe only 1or 2 might hit an animal.
The 20 gauge I think only goes to no 3 buck and they only weigh 23 grains each compared to the 54 grains of 00 and have only one third the energy even if the speeds the same.
So i would limit buck to goats etc at no further than 15 yards, however a solid from a 20 gauge has a bit of authority and would probably be of more use, would go through the silencer and with rifle sights could be good out to 100 plus. Hope this helps, and yes lets see a photo.
By the way whats the reason for wanting to use buck?

Sounds like I’m going to have to stick with solids, I bush hunt a lot and come across deer in close range, 15 yards is probably not really practical though was hoping for 40 or there abouts.