Thread: 20g ammo advice

20ga Rio #4 70mm Buckshot

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didnt see this stuff last time any good to you.??

Originally Posted by gsp follower

20ga Rio #4 70mm Buckshot

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didnt see this stuff last time any good to you.??

Was hoping for somthing in the ought range, I mite just give some buckshot a go even though it will have no wad gunsmith seems to think it will be all good......

Think I have one of the old lee loaders in 20g in the garage somewhere you are welcome to borrow it to test your theory.

Many years ago I gave a hind both barrels of buckshot from a 12 ga at about 20 yards range. I will never try it again. 10 yards max I reckon.

Fellow shooter with me on a trip back in the 90's to shoot a smaller species of deer (cant say where) had a Winchester pump and put 3 rounds at/in it of buckshot before it dropped.
From memory it was the defender model and if so it would've been a very open choke so not so flash maybe. No further than 20 yards I believe.
Why do the Americans love them so much? Must be tight bloody scrub to get the best out of them. I also realise that they shotgun only seasons and some of the new slugs that are being brought out look truly devastating.

Slugs for game I reckon.
Reserve the buckshot for sawn offs carried by stagecoach guards and similar close range defense.

Mind you some of the ones with 4 big petals look like they'd drive a hole the size of your fist through whatever you hit.

Grue sent me a couple of 12 gauge "air rifle pellets" that fit in a std plastic wad cup, yet to load them but they look quite intimidating and i expect accuracy to be good due to their design.

id hate to get hit by some of those sabotted slugs shaped like a hour glass.
got some federal 20 gauge slugs just in casea pig or deer shows up again down the river