old blackpowder guns

[Mortblanc]

I have been doing a lot of research with buckshot, slug and single round ball loads in modern shotguns of late. Still have more testing to do before calling the experiments complete.

I am casting my own slugs, round ball and buckshot and reloading my own loads. It makes testing much cheaper and I can actually afford to shoot enough rounds to have valid results.

I am casting my own buckshot from #F shot through 000 along with round ball in .60 caliber for 20 gauge and .69 for 12 gauge.

And I am not doing the mall ninja down the hall at 10 feet stuff. The testing is mostly at 40 yards and farther.

Also testing with a variety of chokes as well as two guns with complete choke tube sets including turkey tubes and rifled tubes.

I have been shooting shotguns for the better part of 50 years and the testing has opened my eyes to some new things.

People do not give the shotgun credit for its true capabilities.

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It is the same for the smoothbore muzzle loader. I have shot competition with them for years and have friends that can shoot a musket right along side a ML rifle right out to 100 yards.