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Friend shoots doe with buck shot and it lives??
- Thread starter hunter33
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geezer in NH
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35 years of hunting in New England IMHO buck shot should NOT be used for deer it is not reliable to kill and wounds many that are found after the coyotes and crows find them.
Mannlicher
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Unless he had one of the 47 or so special youth hunt tags, he wasn't hunting legally.
I bet it was a youth hunt alright.
Art Eatman
Staff in Memoriam
Leave out the woulda/coulda/shoulda, okay?
The deal is that the shot did spread out so there wasn't a massive internal messup. After all, the doe was still wandering around, later on. The shot might not have been from as close up as the shooter thought, when he told the story.
Odds are that the choke wasn't Full or Turkey.
Bottom line is that buckshot isn't as effective on deer, for the average or novice hunter (and his shotgun) as folks believe. 00 Buck is what, 30 caliber? Coming out at only 1,200 or 1,300 ft/sec? There is a reason for all this R&D on slugs and slug guns for deer...
Art
The deal is that the shot did spread out so there wasn't a massive internal messup. After all, the doe was still wandering around, later on. The shot might not have been from as close up as the shooter thought, when he told the story.
Odds are that the choke wasn't Full or Turkey.
Bottom line is that buckshot isn't as effective on deer, for the average or novice hunter (and his shotgun) as folks believe. 00 Buck is what, 30 caliber? Coming out at only 1,200 or 1,300 ft/sec? There is a reason for all this R&D on slugs and slug guns for deer...
Art