Most people familiar with precision rifle shooting will also be familiar with what a DOPE card or book is. DOPE is actually an acronym, but I shoot shotguns, so don’t ask me. It is essentially a “how my gun shot before” card. That info then serves as a clue for what the precision shooter can … Continue reading The Shotgun DOPE Card
This is a repost from my other blog, Priority Performance Shooting. It was originally published in January of 2018. Buckshot comes in a lot of different flavors. There are the generics that are basically a stack of lead balls in a plastic shotshell. There are loads that utilize special features like hardened pellets or buffer … Continue reading Why a tight buckshot pattern?
August 2020, this Fiocchi 00 Defense load was all over the place. I guess someone found a huge stack of it in a warehouse somewhere because just about every online ammunition retailer had it in stock for a 2-3 week stretch. You can still find it now, but not quite as prevalent. The way ammunition … Continue reading Fiocchi 00 Defense Review and Pattern Test
When Federal hit the market with their Flite Control 00 buck loads it changed the shotgun dynamic. No longer did shotgunners have to rely on barrel modifications or choke tubes to get very consistent and tight patterns at ranges typically considered to be beyond the practical range of buckshot. The voodoo to the shell's performance … Continue reading Federal’s Flite Control vs. Hornady’s Versa-Tite
This is a repost from December 2017 on my other blog. I am slowly migrating all my shotgun content here. Lately I have been doing a bit of shotgun work. The shotgun, much like the revolver for me, has a certain appeal to it that simply cannot be explained. I just like shotguns, and there … Continue reading Not all Shotshells are Created Equal
In today’s market environment, good defensive use shotgun loads can be hard to come by. When you do manage to find some, it usually cost about twice what it did at the end of 2019. This means we might have to do with whatever we can get our hands on. That is where Herter’s comes … Continue reading Herter’s 00 Buckshot Review and Pattern Test
A repost from my other blog For the most part, shotguns are better off using buckshot. Buckshot is the true strength of the shotgun because of the number of projectiles launched with a single trigger press. Slugs are really a compromise solution to one (or both) of two problems 1) the need for additional range, … Continue reading The Shotgun Slug
Used to be, we were pretty limited when it came to putting lights on shotguns. We had the Surefire (used to be Laser Products) option, and that was about it. Now, options run the gamut. Surefire is still the boss of shotgun lights because of their durability. Streamlight pulls up in a close second place. … Continue reading Surefire’s 1,000 lumen Light that Everyone Loves to Hate: The XH35
This is a repost from my old blog When it comes to shotguns, they are odd in that we can load a single round through the ejection port if we have managed to run the gun completely dry. Emergency loading, regardless of platform, is in my opinion an important skill to have. It falls into … Continue reading Shotgun Emergency/Port Load
What do we learn in the first 50 rounds of shooting a cheap shotgun? That cheap isn’t always a good thing. The gun itself is relatively smooth to operate and easy to run, when it runs correctly. In the first 50 rounds of shooting, I noted that I was getting regular instances of the shell … Continue reading H&R Pardner Pump: The First 155 Rounds
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