10 ga Bucksot loads

[Paul Harm]

Craig, what distances are you taking these deer at ?

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Paul Harm

Craig, what distances are you taking these deer at ?

Anymore when I head to the woods in any of my "normal" spots I carry a shotgun and a rifle .

Generally the furthest rifle shot I can get is 75 yards at best .
When I pattern my buckshot loads it's only at 25 yards, so to date I've not fired on one with buckshot at over 30 yards . When I go out I also carry a range finder . But most of my stand sites I know well enough to know when the deer are inside or close to the 25 yard area . I suspect they'll do ok further out but I set that as my limit and so far I've stuck to it . But then if they ease on out a ways and I can find a reason to kill them anyway I'll go on and do it with the rifle .

I suppose you could say I bowhunt with a shotgun .

I am planning to go out Monday and shoot patterns with buckshot and #1 Bismuth in my new to me EH #3 .

[6pt-Sika]

I've killed deer with buckshot so far only with 10's and a 16. Used homemade slug in an 1891 GH 12 this past year but so far no 12 buckshot deer .

I have a couple 12's I wanna blood . But the ones that are interesting me most at the moment other then the 10's are a trio of 20's I have . My little VHE 28" , a Philly Sterlingworth 28" and a Philly Sterlingworth 26" . The 26" is IC/M and the 28" guns are both M/F . For some reason the two tighter guns really like my handloaded #2 buck although they don't do bad with handloaded #3 buck .

Again all my buckshot loads are patterned at 25 yards .