Recoil: Birdshot vs. "Managed" recoil buckshot

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Surefire_U2

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How much more will "Managed Recoil" (e.g. a lower than normal recoil load) buckshot recoil than birdshot, in a typical shotgun. About twice as much? Or more?

I'm going to buy some "Managed Recoil" buckshot ammo this weekend and try it out, but I want to know what to expect.
 
The size of shot has nothing to do with recoil.
Since one ounce is one ounce, it doesn't matter if it's #9 birdshot, 00 buckshot, or a one ounce slug.

You have to judge all this by what LOAD of birdshot.
A light dove and quail load will have less recoil than a heavy duck load.

In order to make a judgment on how much recoil you'll feel compared to what you're shooting in birdshot, we have to know WHAT load of birdshot.

Basically, if you're shooting "standard" loads of birdshot, a managed recoil load of buckshot will be noticeably heavier in recoil, but not that much.

One reason for the introduction of the reduced recoil buckshot loads was because a lot of smaller cops, especially women, were getting pounded so bad they weren't using the shotguns when they should have.

In other words it isn't going to bring tears to your eyes.
 
I just use the real light bird shot loads, the kind used in target/skeet shooting. I don't hunt, so I have no need for the heavy bird shot loads.

So, given that I use a light birdshot load, how much worse will a "light" buckshot load be? I'm not that good with shotguns (to me, even birdshot loads hurt after 25 shots or so), but I figure that if I can shoot about 10-15 of the buckshot loads per range session I will eventually build my proficiency up.
 
the birdshot that i use are 1/18oz. i have used the reduce recoil Rem buckshots. the
2 3/4 in, and i think that the reduced recoil kick less then the birdshots.

when i first gotthe reduce recoil it was for my brother and my mom, i love the regular ones. but i tried the reduce recoil and i just keep shooting til i was out. shot about 25rnds. to me they kick a little less.

my brother will only shoot the about 5 regular buckshots, but with the reduced recoil he shoots at least 25. my mom now shoots buckshots that are reduced recoil.

they work.
 
An ounce of lead is an ounce of lead

Before all the trap ranges near me closed up, my favorite trap load was 1oz. of #8 shot on top of a 3-dram-equivalent of RedDot. Worked just fine out of my double, and it was no big deal to shoot 200 rounds in a day.

Having said that, I've got a few rounds of 000-buck Magnums that I've never had the courage to try.
 
skeeter1,
the 000-buck Magnums just have a little more ump then the 00. they are fun to shoot. i played a trick on my friend. we were shooting clays and i put a 000 in the shotgun. told him to shoot the can that was about 40yrds away. he did. he said what was it. i told him and he said, "this is what i was afriad of". it is more of a mind thing that people say. just try it.
 
the birdshot that i use are 1/18oz.
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Wow, you must be really good to need so little! :D (1 1/8 oz) I need as much as I can get.

Surefire_U2, note that there is a general trend between recoil and load types, but it is not absolute. My assessments are with a pump shotgun. Birdshot is the lightest, then buck, then slugs, everything being normal loaded. You can find some ramped up birdshot that will have more felt recoil that some reduced recoil buckshot for the same weight of payload, but probably nothing normally loaded will do this, or at least I haven't found any.

The difference in recoil from bird to buck to slug, for normal loads of within Federal and this seems to work with cross matching loads and brands is the speed of the recoil. Birdshot is about as close to a push recoil as you will get between the three. Buckshot has a sharper recoil. Slugs tend to have the sharpest recoil.
 
How much shot does low recoil buckshot use?

For example, most low powered birdshot seems to be 1 ounce to 1 1/8 ounces.

How much shot in ounces are 9 00 pellets?
 
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