I dont feal it is so much a range thing so much as most would feal if you can shoot farther it must be better.
It is called perceaved comfert there was a time when most guns didnt shoot slugs acurate past 80 yards.
I read a old nra mag that was old on how to get the best groups out of a smoth bore gun and it talked about installing a peep and the best range was about 80 yards.
Now you have to realize 50 to 80 yards is not that great and most times it would still be a dead deer and this was still before iron sighted smoth bore slug guns of the 70s.
Most hunters dont realize just like there has been improvements in slugs the same is trew in buck shot it dos not have to be just round lead balls winchester makes copper plated bufferd rounds that hold a group real well
there are all typs of roundsyou can work with.

Well, I'm in a special kind of situation. I'll have one barrel with a slug and another with an 06 round. I was thinking buckshot would round out my situation quite nicely. It's something I'm going to try at any rate. I appreciate your recomendation on the winchester buckshot tho I'm probably going to stay with the remingtons I've already purchased and patterned this year. Out to 50 yards the pattern with the modified choke is just fine out to 50 yards and I always have the other two barrels for the longer ranged situations.

Hi Dutchman01!

First, Hi to everyone! I'm new here and this is my first post and as I'm not sure that I'm not covering already familiar information, please bear with me if so.

Second, I'd like to say I haven't tried products from either of these companies so this is most decidely not an endorsement. But these products look sufficiently interesting so that I will try quite a number of them. I'm referring to the heavier than standard slugs, different heavy buckshot loads, and the Tri-ball loads:

http://www.paraklesetechnologies.com...cts.asp?cat=13

http://www.dixieslugs.com/products.html

Dutchman01 I thought you might find a product here to meet your need with your dreilling loads! And last I noticed that this is quite a dated thread, but as it is still listed on the first page of the subforum it's on I thought y'all might not mind my replying!

Dave

Dave,

Welcome to the board. Hope you have a great time here. I don't think anybody minds you replying to a thread that is from September. Any information is good information, especially if it has not been covered yet. Sometimes, when I do google searches for hunting stuff, threads from this chatboard show up in the results. You never know who will be reading this information a year or two from now.

Hope you had a great season.

FFg has a great artical about buck shot

Nothing wrong with buckshot for deer so long as you except the limitations of clean kills and stick with them. IE SHORT range. Also depending on where you hit them you can lose a bit of meat (not to mention if you hit them purty antlers you gonna ruin em. But ya can't eat antlers)

GoodOlBoy

Thanks for the welcome fabsroman, I'm sure I'll enjoy participating and learning. And as I alluded to I'm looking forward to trying some of the different than standard loads listed by the two companies referenced in my earlier post, perhaps after some warmer weather.

If I don't forget I'll try to post the results of those trials here for others to check out as well, (maybe some pattern and accuracy results and if possible penetration as well).

Dave