Swaged#4 buckshot in a AR

[Tom-ADC]

Friend of mine wants to swage #4 buckshot and use it to load .223 for. AR, isn't buckshot kind of soft to shoot at say 2000 FPS?
I'm thinking this is a bad idea in a AR but he wants to shoot cheap!

Okay update we talked him out of it advised to buy the proper mold/molds for it. Did direct him here, he does cast.

[xacex]

No reason for him to go that route. If he already has the buckshot he has lead to make a proper gas checked boolit. The buckshot (round ball) load would be fine for plinking in a single shot, or bolt gun for a nice galery load, but the gas system in an AR has special considerations. Although, I have shot a bunch of 22lr out of an AR with a M261 without issue I just would not chance the buckshot without any coating.

[Echd]

Why would he want to? The only product would be smoke and noise, I can't imagine any real accuracy at all from such a setup.

[enfield]

AR's are just a fad, it will pass

[xacex]

AR's are just a fad, it will pass

Maybe where your at, but down here there is no sign of a slowdown since the late 80's. Once someone hands you a rifle you can run 1000 rounds without cleaning running wet, and hot and still hold close to moa you get it. I wasn't a believer for most of my life. Now, I have them in several flavors, 5.56,300 Blackout, 6.5 Grendel, 50 Beowulf to name a few. All are lighter than my traditional hunting rifles, or war rifles. Dont worry about my wood getting messed up in the woods while hunting too. I would move back up there if I could bring them with me, but I think I will stay down here a while and have some fun. Too much paperwork, and classes to keep them for a Canuk.

[Echd]

AR's are just a fad, it will pass

A fad if you mean the old buffalo rifles of the 1800s were a fad, or the Winchester 70 was a fad, or the Krag rifles every sportsman in the United States carried for much of the 20th century were all fads...

[BruceB]

Although he didn't mark his post as sarcasm, I'm sure Enfield meant it that way. It's the same as the blackpowder gang saying that smokeless powder is a "passing fad". The evidence to the contrary is SO massive and compelling that the statement is obviously made in jest.

Fifty-plus years and millions of rifles offer plain testimony to the fact that the AR pattern is indeed, just a passing fad....someday.