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20 Gauge buckshot?
allen griggs
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I am trying to get some ammo for my brother. Can't find this on GB. They do make 20 gauge buckshot, don't they?
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Seems priced pretty high, but I haven't bought any for awhile.
It's not buckshot, but this stuff is interesting. I'm going to test it out on paper, this week sometime.
Jon
Here you go.
Ugh, over $3 a round..
As above - they make it. I have some, have not looked for any in awhile. I'm loaded up on 12ga HD rounds. So I did not feel the need to stock up heavily on 20ga. I've got maybe 4 boxes of buck and slugs for 20ga and a few heavy game load boxes.
Good luck in your search.
And at 25 yards they are hitting a few inches apart.
I have killed lots of hogs and deer with a patched round ball. I have three muzzleloaders that I have hunted with.
This is a .490 round ball with a mv of about 1,200 fps and it is just devastating on big game.
A single .58 round ball would have much more energy than the .490
The foot pounds of energy of two of those would be something else. At that close range you could take on the biggest game in North America such as a moose, with a lung shot he wouldn't get far.
I sent that info to my brother that is very interesting to an old time muzzleloading hunter like me.