This. But, there’s a dude over there selling buck for $4.50 per lb. that ain’t bad, especially right now.
Right now I’m following the BPI buckshot load data as closely as possible with the components I have on hand. My goal is a 1100-1200 fps 8 pellet load that I keep all 8 pellets on a 12” plate at 25 yds.
Got 25 loaded right now, gonna take them to the range tomorrow and see how it runs in my 870 and if it’ll cycle the 1301
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So I brought out 40 rounds of home loaded buckshot.
35 new primed fiocchi hulls and 5 once fired fiocchi hulls with a win 209 primer, with 17 gr of red dot, claybuster cb1118-12 wad, and 8 pellets of 00 buckshot loaded 2x2x2x2 with a 6 star crimp, using a Lee Loadall 2. All rounds plunked in a spare 28” field barrel, except 1 I kept separated.
Test guns are an 870 wingmaster with 18.5” police barrel and a gen 1 beretta 1301 18.5” barrel. Wanted to see how it patterned and ran in my guns.
The good news is that it cycled my 870 just fine. The 1301 was a different story. I had about 30%-40% fail to eject/weak ejection that caused a fail to feed.
This wasn’t a surprise as the load data I used was a 9 pellet load, and the powder charge was middle of the listed range. Judging from my shoulder chrono these pellets were probably Moving around 1000-1050 fps. Recoil felt like a supersonic 300 blackout load through a pistol.
As far as pattern goes...it was all over the place. The wads are not optimal as their for tapered hills
And fiocchi are straight wall. I think I’m going to try a slightly higher powder charge, my wild ass guess is that with a little more velocity it will group
Better
Pics below, one shot fired at each distance. Circled holes mean are one group, underlined are another
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The buckshot shortage can’t be that bad . Last week a LGS had two pallets of 12 gauge 00 buck on the floor . Yep two pallets .
It’s Nobel Sports .