Okay, so I got some results with the new shell. I understand now why it has such high praise in reviews as a home defense cartridge. The pattern tightness is amazing. At 5 feet, you couldn't even tell it was Buckshot, it hit more like a solid slug. In each picture I circled the the
primary pattern in
green and the
whole entire pattern in
red, just to differentiate if there was a stray buckshot slug that went rogue from the
main group. lol. The large hole that is with the group at some points is from the plastic wadding that holds the "shot" pressed together away from the gunpowder and everything else. That's why at 15 feet it just kind of fell off and did its own thing like a high speed paper airplane losing momentum. lol If you ever go to a shotgun range and see a bunch of plastic things a little bit farther out than the spent shells, that's what that is. At any rate, here's the picture. I am very satisfied with this purchase, and completely loaded up the pump shotgun's magazine and shell ride on the buttstock with this ammunition for house defense, as well as the buttstock ride on the double barrel shotgun, (but I don't use the double barrel for any kind of defensive purposes. I bought that entirely for novelty because I think they are cool. You know, thanks to the Doom games.) I didn't get to test at 20 feet or farther, but I imagine at 20 feet all 9 slugs of this shell type would still hit center mass, although I have no data to verify this.
Recoil wise, it felt a little meaner to fire than the other brand 2 3/4" 00 Buckshot 12 gauge that I'm used to, but I can still handle it. (After that 3" Magnum 00 Buckshot 12 gauge, this is still pretty timid. lmao.)
