More Fun with Shotgun Shells: No Choke Long Range Buckshot!

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Today we dramatically extend the range of buckshot. I experimented on this a few times in previous experiments, trying to make a shot cup that would let the buckshot disperse slower, giving it tighter patterns.

Apart from a buckshot-slug, pretty much a buckshot load that is entirely contained during flight (acting like a slug in flight but breaking open, letting the pellets out only after impact) I wasn't able to tighten the pattern of my buckshot loads.

I know Federal makes the Flitecontrol wad, and from what I've tried with the turkey loads it works damn well.

Remember that I'm trying to keep the spread small all while using a cylinder bore, unchoked 12ga shotgun with a 20" barrel.

Introducing the Shot-Web. Buckshot that's simply tied together in an ideal spread by a thin wire in a web formation.












YEP I WENT THERE. I pilfered the sacred fishing department of the local outdoor sports store for 8lbs braided fishing line and split shot.

This is a proof of concept experiment. Split shot is very soft and I fear it would deform too much or break apart on impact, therefore I do NOT recommend split shot to be used on anything but targets.

I have just bought lead sinkers that are pretty much round lead balls with a hole through them. This should prove to be a better performing Shot-Web.

One last thing to find is how much velocity is lost from the web. As fine as the wire is, it creates drag. I will have to find out how much velocity is lost compared to regular buckshot.

Here's the video. Distance to target was 30 yards.

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Doing stuff like this is great fun...I've done lots of this sort of thing. But you might want to just consider getting your barrel threaded for screw in choke tubes. ;)
 
Gatehouse said:
No real fun....but it gets you from A to B. :)

If you want fun, keep doing what you are doing :)
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It's more that I'd rather change up the ammo in that gun than change the gun for ammo. I like my 590A1 without chokes, it's a defensive shotgun and chokes are just another thing that could go wrong, and there would be the expense of chokes and threading. Then there would be the change in how my preferred slug load would fly.

All of those things makes fiddling with ammo "getting from A to B".

To me, putting chokes in that 590 is like getting to B while adding letters and numbers before, after and around B.
 
Goose hunters have been doing it for years. Its not legal in ontario for water fowl tho. Results are immediate. I've seen it take a wing right off a goose. Hey tie it in a line tho. When it if it hits a bird it wraps around it. Another thing you can try is to heat up material like vasoline and inject into the shot cup. It will solidify and hold the pellets together. Done rite trap load can blow the tits out of a centerfold at 50 yards
 
Wow that's a tight group at that distance!
I experimented by filling buckshot with melted wax. The groups were way tighter but nothing close to your results.
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