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Bartholomew Roberts · August 22, 2011, 08:32 AM

I'm not much of a shotgun guy myself; but I had noticed in past reading that although the IWBA considers #1 buckshot to be the most effective terminally, few people use it because:

A) it is not readily available
B) it tends to pattern poorly in many shotguns

DocGKR at Lightfighter is reporting a new new Federal LE load using their flight control wad and #1 buckshot (LE132-1B). In addition to penetrating 14-18" of bare gel, the new load shows some impressive patterns out of a plain 18" 870P.

The pictures showed a single hole at 7yds and at 25yds, all but 4 of the pellets were in the 10 ring, and the 4 that were not were adjacent and up (upper thoracic cavity/throat). As I said, I'm not a big shotgun guy myself; but I thought the load might be of interest to this board since it seems to address one of the common complaints I've read about #1 buck (poor patterns).

August 22, 2011, 08:32 AM	#1
Bartholomew Roberts member Join Date: June 12, 2000 Location: Texas and Oklahoma area Posts: 8,462	New Federal buchshot load (#1) for LE I'm not much of a shotgun guy myself; but I had noticed in past reading that although the IWBA considers #1 buckshot to be the most effective terminally, few people use it because: A) it is not readily available B) it tends to pattern poorly in many shotguns DocGKR at Lightfighter is reporting a new new Federal LE load using their flight control wad and #1 buckshot (LE132-1B). In addition to penetrating 14-18" of bare gel, the new load shows some impressive patterns out of a plain 18" 870P. The pictures showed a single hole at 7yds and at 25yds, all but 4 of the pellets were in the 10 ring, and the 4 that were not were adjacent and up (upper thoracic cavity/throat). As I said, I'm not a big shotgun guy myself; but I thought the load might be of interest to this board since it seems to address one of the common complaints I've read about #1 buck (poor patterns).