Loren
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Post by Loren on Feb 1, 2012 11:48:58 GMT -7
Does anyone have a good recipe for an accurate 3" 4 buck load. I am in need of one. Loren
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leper
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Post by leper on Apr 21, 2012 16:32:03 GMT -7
I can't help you on reloading. As I never have re-loaded anything. But back when I shotgunned. I used "buffered" 4 Buckshot. Which resulted in tighter patterns vs non-buffered 4 Buck. Which enabled me to make longer yardage lethal shots.
I'm of the opinion. Buffering assists in aligning the large pellets as they go down the bore. Which reduces crowding & results in bad patterns.
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Post by 72camaro on Oct 21, 2013 19:39:41 GMT -7
Does anyone have a good recipe for an accurate 3" 4 buck load. I am in need of one. Loren I've been saving some 3" hulls. Did you ever get any recipes? But, I've never seen any #4 shot in any of the local reloading places, more or less just reclaimed, 7.5 or 8. |
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Post by broper on Oct 22, 2013 5:17:13 GMT -7
I've never hunted coyotes/predators with a shotgun but there's a good article in the current issue of "Successful Hunter" on shot sizes for coyotes. I always considered #4 buck to be about right for coyotes but this article kinda changes my thinking. There's been a couple times when I wished I"d had a shotgun when calling coyotes.
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Post by Timber Butte Outdoors on Oct 22, 2013 10:25:46 GMT -7
OK! SO! Are you going to leave us hanging here!?!?!?! What did the article say about #4 buckshot? and what did it say to change your mind about it?  ? What did it say was the right size shot for coyotes? Come on Share with us roper! Gary |
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Post by 72camaro on Oct 22, 2013 12:43:58 GMT -7
I was thinking the same thing.
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Post by broper on Oct 22, 2013 13:02:09 GMT -7
Buy the magazine! lol. No,really, the article was written by John Haviland. He says that in his tests, #4 buck patterened best in an improved cylinder choke. That was a little surprising to me. Then next was modified and it performed worst in full choke. But when he went to copper plated BB and #2 lead, they both performed best in full chokes. And both put a lot more shot on target than #4 buck. Buffer didn't work with the copper plated BB's in a 3" 12 ga. He figured the #2 lead was good out to 35 yds. or so and thought that the best all around was copper plated BB's. In his tests the #4 buck shot pretty open patterns and not many shot hit a coyote size target. He was reloading when he came up with this, not factory ammo. I guess the thing to do is try several differnt shot sizes and loads in your own gun and see which perfgorms best. But what I got from the article is that #4 buck isn't all that good for coyotes.
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Post by 72camaro on Oct 22, 2013 19:39:13 GMT -7
Too bad it was #2 lead and not steel, I got a bunch of steel #2 and BB for geese.
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Post by broper on Oct 23, 2013 5:33:34 GMT -7
Steel might work. Try patterning it in your gun. One of the guys in the "Blast From The Past", that we just had, told me that he killed one coyote at 62 yds. with 3 1/2" BB's. He didn't say but I'm sure he was using lead.
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? What did it say was the right size shot for coyotes?