shooting buckshot

[Harry Collins]

Charlie,

I've never hunted deer with a shotgun. I have an old friend in North Carolina and I think a shotgun is all they can use there to hunt deer. He told me they would drive the deer and shoot them in the head. A .36 lead ball in the brain should do the trick.

Harry

[Mike Stahle]

Just posted today on an other forum.

"I have a trio of old W.C.Scott hammerless damascus shotguns and ALL are capable of handling moderately loaded smokeless loads as well as a nice old Parker 16 gauge hammerless .

Incidently just about 10 days ago I flattened a less then bright Virginia Whitetail at 26 yards with the old W.C Scott 10 gauge that belonged to my maternal grandfather for over 50 years !
I used a load Ross Seyfried used in a gun exactly like mine for 1 1/4 ounces of shot . But instead of using the shot I put twelve 00 Buck pellets in !
Shooting this load offhand at 25 yards on a pattern board one shot from each barrel gave me a 15" pattern with ALL 24 pellets accounted for inside the circle !

That deer also happened to be the first deer I have EVER killed with buckshot . Kinda cool it was with my grandfathers old 10 gauge and a load I assembled myself."

[charlie cleveland]

that was a fine story.. it reallyworks a fellow up when you kill a deer withand old shotgun and espesilly with a load a fellow has made up his self....you and others know that feeling.....congratulations on the kill with that wc scott and roll your own load.....its fairly easy to take a doe with a centerfire rifle but you have to let them come close with bucksot....i hope to take one soonwith my short ten load...killed one with buckshot in 8 ga last year...hope a few more pitch in and tell of there use of buckshot on game.... charlie

[Mike Stahle]

It indeed gives you an appreciation for the people of long ago that
had to do it all with just one gun. (feeding & protecting the family)
I can see how a SxS would have been a good choice. Small game hunting
with one barrel, the other barrel at the ready with a round of buck shot.