Buckshot loads from a rifled barrel

[dsh1106]

Has anyone compared the patterns from a rifled barrel to that of various chokes in a smooth bore?

[Hogtamer]

Has anyone compared the patterns from a rifled barrel to that of various chokes in a smooth bore?

you'll hit everything except what you're shooting for due to centrifugal donut!

[bikerbeans]

I haven't tried buckshot but I have shot birdshot from a rifled barrel and it is just like HT says, an area in the middle of the target with zero hits.

BB

[jmort]

Box O Truth
https://www.theboxotruth.com/the-box-o-truth-43-buckshot-in-a-rifled-shotgun-barrel/

Seems like a desperation application

[jdfoxinc]

Ok what about .410 buckshot loads in a Judge or Govenor?

[bikerbeans]

jd,

I have some winchester 410 2.5" 000 buckshot. I will test them in my rifled barrel 410 marlin once I finish building it. Waiting on the barrel from JES, rest of gun is finished.

BB

[WebMonkey]

Ok what about .410 buckshot loads in a Judge or Govenor?

the difference between a 20yd shotgun shot and a 7yd judge shot.

judge is marketed for up close and personal.
rifling still flings it but not as noticeable that close to target.

[Hogtamer]

Those 5 pellet OOO Federal 3" 410 loads are great medicine. I watched a buddy put 2 pellets in a snuff can at 45 yd from an old single shot long barrel full choke. One of his neices killed a doe at 25 yds with that combo from a ground blind.

[jmort]

I use #000 in a Governor
It goes 16 inches in bare gelatin
Very similar to getting smoked by Wild Bill Hickok with his .36 caliber revolvers, but rather than a single hit, 4 at once.

[gpidaho]

Hogtamer: Thanks for the link. I have taken your advice and ordered up a hundred of the 20ga. plastic wad slugs from Unc. Dino. I have received an order from Slugs R Us for their sabot slugs, both 12 and 20. I was just trying to get the new barrel and dot scope tuned in with a few factory loads. Not anything I'll waste the money on again. I'm liking the recoil level of a 20ga. autoloader. Not quite as harsh as some of the .735 RB's I was sending out of the 12 last week. Thanks to all for the replies and helpful ideas. This is one great forum. Gp Well guys I must have hit a wrong button somewhere LOL Wrong thread. I'm a computer "Tard" Gp

[RMc]

There would seem to be a big difference between firing an in-line buckshot load through a proper rifled shotgun barrel and an overbore rifled barrel such as found on .45/.410 revolvers.

Now, while I have not personally tried TriBall 12 gauge buckshot through a rifled barrel, I am aware of a number of reports of tight patterns fired from such barrels.

Something to think about.