#4 Buckshot Ammo: #4 Buckshot Explained

I use 11 dimes in a reload , they are hell on every thing up to about 15 yards and they don't over penetrate much

 

Re: no's 19 and 20. I wonder how 1" finishing nails would work? And using #12 shot for in home defense, If you were a surgeon, would you like to search out # 12 shot from an invader's abdomen .

 

I’d think #12 would be way to small. Now if you added a healthy squirt of Elmer’s glue to the mix...

 

I bought 8 pounds of lead BB and 8 pounds lead T shot from ballisticproducts dot com. Total came to about $94.
They still had some 9mm projectiles in stock too.
I almost bought some lead #1 bird shot from them too, but I still have that 25lb sack of #2 bird shot that's maybe missing a pound or 3.

 

Well, in Vietnam, they used to have flechette rounds for the art'y. If they blew a whistle, everybody in a firefight would flatten, as it meant a 0 degree straight down the throat shot at massing VC and NVM's. Buddy of mine used to talk about that. They only did it if in threat of being overrun. Second hand knowledge. I was in training and never made it there.

They sell flechette specialty shotgun rounds, but they are expensive, couple of bucks apiece. Folks who reload shotgun shells are the best.

 

Re: #25. I think I heard that referred to as a "Bee Hive round". Glad I never had to see one used.

 

The way I see it if 00 buckshot goes straight through a deer, why not make the pellets a little smaller and hit the target with more of them. My sample size was kind of small, only 10 deer fallen to 00 buck for me. Every single pellet that hit every deer pretty much went straight through and I never found a pellet gutting them, only cut up 2 or 3 my self early on.
I wanted to try number 1 buck, I found some Winchesters, they were kind of expensive, I found and bought 2 boxes, just enough to pattern them out of my gun with cylinder, improved cylinder, modified and full. Then next time I found them they cost even more and were a different brand so they would likely shoot different. So just stuck with 00.

 

Somewhere I have a few rounds from 'Nam a buddy gave me: It was a .50 bullet with little fins on the back of them. He said they were in a bomb that exploded at high altitude and tens of thousands of them would rain down and devastate an area. Your post made me think of those.

 

I got a Lee number 4 buckshot mold. It makes 18 pellets at a time.
It makes 18 pellets in 6 cavities at a time. Just snip them apart with some small cable cutters.
$52 shipped.

 

Flechettes Pack U.S. Military 1 LB for you shotgun reloaders out there.

 

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.180" #SBK2B Super Buck #BB 46.5 744 5952
.190" #SBK3B Super Buck #BBB 43.8 700 5600
.200" #SBK1T Super Buck #T 31.3 500 4000
.210" #SBK2T Super Buck #TT 29.0 464 3712
.220" #SBK1F Super Buck #F 28.1 450 3600
.240" #SBK04 Super Buck #4 20.3 325 2600
.250" #SBK03 Super Buck #3 18.8 300 2400
.260" #SBK35 Super Buck #3-1/2 16.3 260 2080
.270" #SBK02 Super Buck #2 12.5 200 1600
.290" #SBK25 Super Buck #2-1/2 11.6 186 1488
.300" #SBK01 Super Buck #1 10.6 170 1360
.310" #SBK15 Super Buck #1-1/2 10.0 160 1280
.320" #SBK10 Super Buck #0 9.4 150 1200
.330" #SBK20 Super Buck #00 8.1 130 1040
.340" #SBK205 Super Buck #00-1/2 8.0 128 1024
.360" #SBK30 Super Buck #000 6.3 100 800
.380" #SBK40 Super Buck #0000 5.2 83.4 667
.490" #SBK490 Super Buck .490" ball 2.4 39 312
.500" #SBK500 Super Buck .500" ball 2.2 35 290
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Had an old man give me a 00 and #4 mold combination,Haven't tried it out,May us it for fishing jigs....lol

 

I like the idea, but shoot someone with that and see what happens to you in court. I would be your friend on the jury but most Libtards and probably a lot of 2A people would be against you. SHTF, no problem.

 

Yes it is best to use factory ammo for self defense. Do not give a crazy judge anything to use against you. Even if you use factory hollow point ammo and the right judge gets the case you then might be in trouble. I will use full metal jacket ammo and aim for a one shot stop.

 

Had an old man last year pass this on to me
#4 and #00 mold,Guess it can make good fishing lure jug heads or slingshot projectiles?

 

goes for all those BS exotic shotgun rounds - better have the damn jury on your side 100% when that antigun DA starts showing the effects of a slug on the victim - much less using some battlefield round ...

anything goes in a post-SHTF WROL world - better keep it reasonable otherwise .....

 

Cut shell, problem solved!
For SHTF/TEOTWAWKI, it's every man for hisself, and I'm not choosing a shotgat for any reason other then it's all there is left after the ammo for all the others has ran out! Like I pointed out before, having seen and used a .12 gau in combat, and having seen first hand what it does and doesn't do to a living human being, I'll take my chances with anything else first, always! Given a preference it will always be a .30cal battle rifle first, and a 5.56 second, loaded with varmint rounds!

 

I bought this case of #4 buckshot a few years back. I figured since I was putting up ammo for everything else in the house I shouldn't pass over the Winchester 1200! I only have about 25-30 slugs but I'm not a fan of them. But I will not hesitate to defend the family or myself with either, DA be darned.

 

Don't mess with the flechettes they are very inconsistent.
Any buckshot beats them in every way imaginable.
At 30 yards 00 buckshot goes straight through a deer every time. Flechettes only might be lethal at 30 feet but I doubt it.

 

Consistent or not, they are not intended as meat getters. They are intended to disable an enemy and make his comrades take medical care of hesheit instead of continuing an attack on you.