Sunday, April 19, 2009

Buckshot and Rifled Barrels



Carteach0 puts some buckshot down range through a rifled barrel to answer an age old question........ Good stuff. More here.
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5 comments:

  1. phlegmfatale10:51 AM

    Cool vid.

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  2. Paul11:38 AM

    I have wondered about the spread of buckshot and other shot through a rifled barrel, mostly with the 45/410 handguns. I wish, however, that he had had a control of 3 buckshot rounds through a smoothbore for comparison. Or better yet, a bedsheet to actually show the patterns of smoothbore vs rifled.

    I'd do it myself, but I don't have a rifled slug barrel, or land.

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  3. OrangeNeckInNY1:52 PM

    I hope the shots that didn't hit the target, didn't also go over the berm.

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  4. Anonymous12:13 AM

    Thats also a lot futher away than bedroom door to front door in most homes.

    Measure your most likely shooting point, and your most likely entry point of a BG and try that. with 00 buck, you get about a 2-3 foot pattern at 30 feet, 18 inch pattern at 20 and about 9 inch at 12 feet.

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  5. Jerry The Geek6:07 AM

    One wonders what the percentage of hits would be when show with a comparable shotgun (probably based on barrel length)from a smooth-bore shotgun.

    It's an interesting video, but not terribly authoritative data.

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