Federal Reduced Recoil 00 buck

#4 buck for me. Cost? What do you value your life at? Your dead, but saved $10 bucks?

No, birdshot is not suitable for HD. You don't need high end buck either, the best part about the high end buck is the very tight pattern at longer ranges which won't matter across the room.

Just get some 2 3/4" buck in 4, 1, or 00.

I agree with Strambo , just put some sort of Buck shot in there ( I favor 00 but thats just me) and leave it be .

Bird shot is for the birds and clay targets. Any size of buckshot is what you want. The reduced recoil is more pleasant to shoot than full power.

Propforce

I stocked up on Federal 00 Buck Reduced Recoil awhile back when I found it online on sale. Currently you can find it at ammuntiondepot.com at $4.27/5 rounds and at sgammo.com for $34.95/50 rounds. Those are pretty decent prices in my opinion and a great deal more effective for home defense than any sort of birdshot you'll ever find.

They are expensive

Click to expand...

$5.50 ? How is that expensive ? lol

+1 on the Buckshot. I like 00 myself. Birdshot is not acceptable defense ammo imho. And you do not need to count the cost on your home defense ammo. Do you really shoot that much of it?

You can get in plenty of good practice with cheap birdshot shells. Use quality buckshot shells for defense. Federal is real good!

Yes they are worth it.

The Federal Flitecontrol 00 either low recoil or full power is the current state of the art in buckshot ammunition.

Birdshot is for birds.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

Propforce said:

Thanks guys. I am a newbie to shotgun and just bought this one below







I bought a couple boxes of target loads $8.99/box of 25, then I saw at the LGS the Federal Reduced Recoil 00 Buck Shots but it's $20/box of 25. It is also more expensive than hunting loads that's why I ask.

Click to expand...

Nice buy. I got that same 590A1. Top quality shotgun. And that's a decent price on those rounds at a lgs. I see them for $5 for a five round box at mine.

Whatever you get, make SURE it's a FLITECONTROL wad shell.

You want all the pellets to stay together inside the wad for home defense use.

I actually did some patterning and opt for the non flight control. It holds the pattern too tight for my liking. The regular isn't going to spread more than the size of a softball at defensive ranges in the home.

I use whatever I find at a good price as long as it's buckshot. Currently using rio 00 in the 12 gage, but it might be extrema brand, and I think Winchester #3 buck in the 20 gage.

I'm not really worried about spread or pattern so much. At HD distance I don't think a perp would notice the difference. On a scale from 1-10 the ouch factor would be a 10 regardless.

I think the FliteControl shells are terrific. I keep on hand a supply of either those or Hornady's VersaTite buckshot shells, which are much the same in performance. I see them as useful for extending the shotgun's range, for they pattern much tighter than regular buckshot shells. There are times when that would be a good thing.

But I still prefer the older style of shell, that spread out at a rate of about an inch a yard, when fired from a cylinder or IC barrel. (That is a gross approximation; all barrels are different, shells vary in patterning ability and the rate of spread may be well on either side of an inch a yard. Test your gun and your ammo to make sure you know what the spread is.) Federal is, again, a top brand--perhaps the best of all--in that kind of shell too. Their Power Shok Low Recoil buckshot is excellent.

My reasoning is that it is desirable if the shot spreads out a bit. It will not spread much at household defense distances. My thinking on this is influenced by individual factors. My house is brick and I live alone. Whatever happens in there is going to stay in Vegas.

Now, even if the pattern is only the size of a softball, that is still more margin for error than FliteControl is going to give me at the same distance. I'll take it.

I can practice with the Fiocchi reduced recoil 00 Buck without pain
But in a pickle it would put down the hurt



$5.35 for a box of 10 at Able's Ammo:

http://www.ableammo.com/catalog/fiocchi-reduced-recoil-high-velocity-buckshot-12le00bk-gauge-pellets-1150-nickel-plated-lead-buckshot-rdbx-p-89132.html?utm_source=ammoseek&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=shotshells&utm_campaign=ammoseek

In terms of shotgun ammo, whatever you pick needs to be reliable and pattern well out of your individual shotgun. The brand is likely reliable. You will need to see how,it patterns. As for what size of buckshot, I don't think it matters that much.

Highly unlikely reliability will ever be a problem in a pump action. Just don't mess around with those mini Aguilla shells.

Putting cost over safety..........don`t get it.

You think the bad guy is using reduced recoil loads? Yea he has gotta a load of the heaviest loadings he can afford.

Remember you are just in his/her way till they get what they want.

The best HD load is plain grey-boxed Winchester 2&3/4" 1 buck with avg. muzzle velocity of 1250fps that Walmart used to sell for about $1 per round. The fancy plated loads with special shot cups are not worth bothering with.
One of the best loads I have ever used was German RWS-Rottweil SG load in 67mm clear case with un-plated balls and no buffer. The secret to its superb patterning quality was perfect bland of payload and velocity.

Propforce said:

Thanks guys. I am a newbie to shotgun and just bought this one below



I bought a couple boxes of target loads $8.99/box of 25, then I saw at the LGS the Federal Reduced Recoil 00 Buck Shots but it's $20/box of 25. It is also more expensive than hunting loads that's why I ask.

Click to expand...

That is well proven design that started out as Remington Model 31. This is improved version with dual action rails and bolt that locks into barrel extension. The Remington 31 produced with "Dural frame" (aluminum alloy) ca. 1949 had barrel that locked into receiver via threaded steel insert.

Federal reduced recoil 00 buck is exactly what I keep loaded in my shotgun… It patterns about how I like and I'm happy with the reduced recoil instead of the shoulder-dislocator 00 buck that some people keep loaded