Winchester Low Recoil Buckshot

[Surefire]

How well does the Winchester Low recoil buckshot pattern from a Rem 870 HD? What about a Mossberg 500?

I ordered a box of 25 shells and will try it out, but was curious how the results of others were.

I will also try the Remington load. What is the consenses on the best low-recoil buckshot load?

 

[dfariswheel]

How a specific brand/type of shell patterns depends on your individual gun and choke.

What patterns great in my gun may be lousy in yours.

What you have to do is pattern the ammo in your gun to find out whats what.

 

[goon]

I have found that anything Federal is most likely to pattern best in my wide open 18 inch Mossberg.

I also say though that with any brand and model, every one will be different.
Two guns with sequential serial numbers may have a love/hate relationship with the same box of ammo.

When I realized how cool my shotgun is, first thing I did was buy a 5 round box of EVERYTHING I could get my hands on and try them all out.
Some worked great (Federal), some worked OK and some were great for putting lead downrange and cycling the action but no good for anything else.
Just have to try them.

 

[beerslurpy]

If you wanted low recoil, you should have bought a 20 gauge.

 

[Onmilo]

I have to agree with the other posters that the question is similar to asking how well a 396 engine will perform in a Plymouth Duster.

I happen to shoot Winchester low recoil buckshot in three different Mossberg shotguns, Two Model 500 pumpguns and a semiauto 9200 Jungle gun.
It has worked well in all three guns and the patterns are consistent for buckshot.
I think the maximum effective range of this buckshot is well below a standard load with 30 meters being about as far as this stuff will go with power and patterning, then again I don't care to push a combat shotgun much past thirty meters unless I have the gun loaded with slugs.
P.S. I use low recoil slugs too and have had better luck with them than any buckshot load but some combat courses of fire say you can't cheat and must use buckshot,,,,

 

[Surefire]

I've shot a 20 gauge, I usually can't tell the difference (unless its in two guns of identical mass). 20 gauges tend to be lighter, so the smaller shell doesn't always make recoil less, IMO.