I bought this gun for deer hunting, but the question is can this gun shoot slugs without anything special needed. And if so what kind (brand) slug. And can a buckshot do the trick. Thank You
Wouldn’t it be an important piece of information in a shooting death, for the police and the ME to know the size of the load used to kill the victim with a 12 ga shotgun during the investigation to make a ruling on the manner of death? Wouldn’t it matter if it was birdshot or buckshot? I read a story where the police investigators and the ME never even removed the shell casing that inflicted the fatal shot from the shot gun. The size of the load in a shotgun shell is on the side of the casing. How do they determine anything with out even knowing the size of the shot used? Do they just guess? No autopsy or ballistics test were performed not even a toxicology was done. And there were two shots fired and they left the first shell casing lying on the ground isn’t that also evidence? It was a very curious story to me I just wanted to know what the proceedure would be in a case like that, when no witnesses were present. Shouldn’t it be fully investigated?
I have a benelli supernova tactical shotgun which I have taken to the range and fired maybe 30 rounds through or so (buckshot and slugs). I purchased a remington universal cleaning kit, I’m just curious what are the steps to clean my gun?
Of course I know how to take off the barrel and such.
I just don’t know the order of things to do, when do I use the bore cleaning solvent, the patches, the bronze brush, etc.?
Do I need to worry about scratching anything? I would assume steel is harder than bronze… but I want to make sure.
Does the order even really matter? Or should I just use the brush until the big chunks of wad and lead oare gone and then use the patch with solvent to finish the job?
They have great stopping power. Slugs have more power than a 5.56mm round and the average engagement for U.S. personel today is 75 yards or less. Slugs have an effective range up to 125 yards and sometimes more. Even buckshot would have effective firepower for putting down lead down range. The Usas 12 Full Auto Shotgun has a 50 round drum that can fire birdshot,buckshot,slugs, and even 40mm rounds with effective range up to 200 yards! Why wouldn’t the U.S. use shotguns for combat instead of door breaching?
I am going to be hunting white tail deer this season, with a shotgun for the first time. My barrel is a smooth bore barrel, so I am wondering what kind of choke I should use, if I want to use, slugs, buckshot or sabot rounds. If anyone has any info it would be appreciated.
The current choke in my barrel is a Remington Mod Choke.
I want to buy a shotgun and I want to get on that is reasonably priced but also good quality.What brand would be suitable?What type of ammo would be the best?Slug?Buckshot?What is the difference and what are those used for?
using 00 buckshot, on a remington 870 express synthetic 7 round. 12 gauge.
what is the type of ammo to use in a shotgun to blow a big hole in something like you see in the movies? Is it slugs with the 9 steel buckshot pellets?
I am doing a ballistics presentation on 6 different shells ranging from target load to buckshot, I will fire them each throught the same shotgun at a target and I need to find a target that can reflect the diffrence in damage done by each. I had origionally planned on using modeling clay but now a week from the project due date the person that was going to supply me with the needed torso sized block (150lbs worth) no longer carries it. Does anyone have an idea of something that I can use for 8 different tests and costs less than total? I have roughly 3 days to aquire it if I am to do the testing in time for the presentation. I have looked into plywood but each impact would be just one big-*ss hole, I need each individual pellet to be reflected. Does anyone have any ideas?
What is the most powerful round that can be used in a shotgun? A deer slug? Buckshot?
Assume some of the popular Mossberg shotguns like all-purpose 500 or 535 (they use Accu-Choke tubes), or 835 (uses Accu-Mag tubes). I provide the link to Mossberg list below.
My question is which tube to install for self-defense. You could consider two cases: one inside home, and one outside. I would assume the best would be the most open tube, Mossberg lists "skeet" as the most open. I assume you cannot use all-purpose shotguns designed for choke tubes without a choke tube installed. How come Mossberg does not have a straight cylinder tube with no constriction? Skeet is the most open tube.
http://mossberg.com/products/access.asp?type=chokes§ion=access
Another factor to consider is buckshot size or birdshot size. Assume 12ga. I plan to have 1-2 birdshot shells in the front, followed by buckshots with increasing pellet sizes up to the max 5 shells in the magazine.
They aren’t that accurate and have limited ammo capacity. Also, buckshot won’t penetrate body armor.
On opening day, I’m going to be walking around in a very thick brushy area. I’ve never used a shotgun hunting before, and want to know what is the best thing to use: rifled slugs, or 3" 00 buckshot?
They always seeme to be using rifles and light machine guns but shotguns are very versatile and can fire buckshot for the spread and can fire slugs that can be just as if not more poweful than a standard 5.56mm rifle round. Also the U.S. has explosive buckshot as well