Personally if I was going to use a shotgun for home defense, I would use Centurion's multi defense load.
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GatorFarmer
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Interesting load, and actually, a potentially good idea, albeit replicating an old one. It seems to somewhat recreate the old "buck and ball" load of musket days, which was one big old (.69ish I think) lead ball and two or three buckshot pellets. This had a nasty reputation even into the Civil War era.
sipowicz
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Damn..those Romans were way ahead of their time!
I read one test where the 000,00,0 Buck loads pattered better out of a cylinder bore barrel and the #1,#4 Buck did better out of choked barrels. I would pattern test the gun and see what has the best pattern or just buy 00 since it is more readily available and probably a bit cheaper.
mjr
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During the War of Independence, George Washington ordered that his men load one musket ball and "four or eight buckshott," depending on the bore of the particular musket. There are accounts of men loading up to ten buckshot in addition to the musket ball. During the 1861-65 war (call it what you will), the standard buck and ball load was one .69 ball and three buckshot.
During the late 1980s I shot up a lot of buckshot of every size I could find, mostly shooting at 25 yards, to see what patterned best out of a 20" 870 smoothbore. At that range, the clear winner was the nine-pellet 00 load, which performed better than the 12-pellet 00 loads. As I recall No. 1 buck was in the top three. No. 4 ranked near the bottom. (Of course, a homeowner isn't likely to be shooting at BGs at 25 yards.)
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