Thread: #1 Buck for HD
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Old May 29, 2011, 10:24 PM   #25
Gehrhard
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Blakester, I am fairly convinced that the "thang" people have with 00 Buck is exactly that for quite some time it was pretty much the ONLY thing you'd find.

People generally seem to be in one of two camps regardless: sand-sized shot dove-loads are the same as a slug at the end of a hallway or 00 Buckshot is the smallest effective pellet and had better be backed up with alternating slugs in the magazine tube.

"Birdshot is for birds" cries one group. "Buckshot is for bucks" should yell the other. Sounds silly? But buckshot was for hunting BUCKS and Black Bear. Is 3-1/2" 000 Buckshot even better? Some of you are saying "ayup, sure 'tis" when of course it isn't. Regardless, that isn't what was on the shelves -- 2-3/4" 00 Buck was.

It was bigger than BB shot (which is what I bought to celebrate the Rodney King verdict -- probably got the last of it), and there was nothing much in between. Once in a while, ONCE in a while, you'd find 00 in boxes of 25, probably at a gun show. That was when we shopped for ammo in a brick and mortar store. When we could pick the stuff up off of a shelf. When it was almost always in stock and you weren't limited to how many boxes you bought. When a kid dropping out of high-school didn't ask you if it was for a pistol or a rifle. When you weren't asked for proof you were over 18.

Now the internet. More choice. More competition. And lots of access to data and distilled information by analytical folk that has to be ignored to keep to them thar old wives tales...

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