Gotta a ways to go!
I have a coyote hunting friend who asked me to load him 12ga buckshot loads. I ordered a mold and components based upon Hogtamers loads.
While looking for slug components in my loading room I found a box of "0" buckshot, made by Hornady. OK let's play. Loaded up some 9 and 12 pellet unbuffered loads in 2 3/4" new fiocchI hulls. Unique for the 9 pellets and blue dot for 12 pellets. Roll crimped, did I mention i can't fold crimp for squat with a loadall II?
Shot all 20 rounds this morning from an old Mercury 12ga sxs full/full choke. Note the chokes have opened up over the years to a right barrel close to modified and the left barrel a little tighter.
30 yards on a 10" round target.
9 pellet load average 4 hits
12 pellet load average 5 hits.
Note I would fire both barrels and divide by 2 to get the average hit number. My guess is the left barrel accounted for 60 to 70 percent of the hits.
This is my baseline. Now to see what I can do with cast heat treated buckshot and a proper wad with buffer.
BB