Precision shooting with 00-Buckshot

[Hrfunk]

Hi all: if any of you are defensivie shotgunners, you might be interested in my latest video.

HRF

https://youtu.be/zEY55dq3zF0

[Hrfunk]

Wow! No comments. I either did a really good job, or a really bad job! I hope it was the former.

HRF

[Oklahoma Rebel]

hey, just watched it, you are right, it is easy to " overestimate" the size the pattern is going to be, and someone not practiced might think they can just point and shoot, maybe even from the hip. now if you practice that way of shooting, it becomes instinctive, but someone with little experience could get lucky, or not.....

[Wayne Smith]

For me you were kind of proving the obvious, I guess.

[Hrfunk]

For me you were kind of proving the obvious, I guess.

I'm not sure I was proving anything. I was demonstrating something for folks who might be laboring under a misconception regarding the performance of buckshot at close distances. While I agree, this is a rather obvious truth to those with a more sophisticated knowledge of firearms; there are many out there who believe the Hollywood cliche' (where the scattergun pattern covers an entire upper torso from a few feet away) is the truth. Several such persons have commented on my youtube channel. I hope it was, at least, a bit entertaining even if the subject matter seemed obvious.

Take Care,
HRF

[john.k]

The simplest way to scatter shot is to eliminate plastic wads....gas in the shot column scatters pellets.......or make your own shot from flat lead sheet cut into bits or even long strips.Experiment in a cheap ,expendable gun.

[Oklahoma Rebel]

sounds like the old "dime load" what did they call them?, 2 dollar loads? because that's how much it cost to load them?

[pipehand]

Good video. Subscribed.

[Hrfunk]

Good video. Subscribed.

Thank you!

HRF

[sparky45]

Subscribed!!

[Ballistics in Scotland]

The simplest way to scatter shot is to eliminate plastic wads....gas in the shot column scatters pellets.......or make your own shot from flat lead sheet cut into bits or even long strips.Experiment in a cheap ,expendable gun.

Not necessarily. Gas leaking into the shot column can cause pellets to fuse together, making a pattern so irregular that the target can either be killed twice or escape altogether. As to cutting up sheet lead, it can give very poor performance if the range is long, and if you defend yourself with it, could lead to accusations that you deliberately planned to inflict sadistic, lacerating wounds. Pure flim-fram of course, but plenty of people in courts make a good living in flim-flam.

With buckshot you are better off putting opposing flats on every pellet, either with a vice (stick them all to a piece of adhesive tape first, if the flat jaws are vertical) or by hitting each one with a hammer.

[quail4jake]

Well done! Sometime in the future can you do a similar video and comment on the effect of choke with buckshot?