Thread: 20g ammo advice

just got to watch data like this on charts as different places use one size either way....#4 buck is good wallaby medicine.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

ok you will have to read slowly as I cant type fast....
00buck 0.33" 53.8grains 8 pellets per once
0buck 0.32" 49.0 grains 9 pellets per once
1 buck 0.30" 40.5 grains 10 pellets per once
4buck 0.24" 20.7 grains 21 pellets per once

so unless you being a right dork and trying to stuff in more than will practically fit..you WONT overload a case. and the wee sinkers from warehouse actually have weight written on them
I think its the 1/8th oz ones we use for drowning worms.

I think can’t see myself using the 20g enough to justify buying a reloading setup for it I do like the idea of swapping out the birdshot for sinkers or whatever I can find sounds simple enough and the defiantly have a wad.

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this stuff be perfect if you can find any

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comes in 20 gauge and is wadded

Originally Posted by gsp follower

this stuff be perfect if you can find any
comes in 20 gauge and is wadded

Looks good can’t find any online in nz though

Originally Posted by Chippychow

Looks good can’t find any online in nz though

yea sorry i dont even know who the remington agent is anymore.
someone here might tho.

Last outfit that had Remington was "OUTDOOR BRANDS" in Penrose Auckland. If you want anything out of the ordinary needs to be ordered 12 months before you want it. Hopeless outfit that does their best to dodge warranty claims.

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didnt see this stuff last time any good to you.??

Originally Posted by gsp follower

20ga Rio #4 70mm Buckshot

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didnt see this stuff last time any good to you.??

Was hoping for somthing in the ought range, I mite just give some buckshot a go even though it will have no wad gunsmith seems to think it will be all good......

Think I have one of the old lee loaders in 20g in the garage somewhere you are welcome to borrow it to test your theory.

Many years ago I gave a hind both barrels of buckshot from a 12 ga at about 20 yards range. I will never try it again. 10 yards max I reckon.

Fellow shooter with me on a trip back in the 90's to shoot a smaller species of deer (cant say where) had a Winchester pump and put 3 rounds at/in it of buckshot before it dropped.
From memory it was the defender model and if so it would've been a very open choke so not so flash maybe. No further than 20 yards I believe.
Why do the Americans love them so much? Must be tight bloody scrub to get the best out of them. I also realise that they shotgun only seasons and some of the new slugs that are being brought out look truly devastating.

Slugs for game I reckon.
Reserve the buckshot for sawn offs carried by stagecoach guards and similar close range defense.

Mind you some of the ones with 4 big petals look like they'd drive a hole the size of your fist through whatever you hit.

Grue sent me a couple of 12 gauge "air rifle pellets" that fit in a std plastic wad cup, yet to load them but they look quite intimidating and i expect accuracy to be good due to their design.

id hate to get hit by some of those sabotted slugs shaped like a hour glass.
got some federal 20 gauge slugs just in casea pig or deer shows up again down the river