Buckshot has a long history of being a useful and efficient element in the American deer woods, from the flintlock era until now. It turns smoothbore firearms typically used for firing birdshot at ...

Buckshot, as its name suggests, is shot for bucks. A load of buckshot consists of a few very large pellets loaded into a shotgun shell. It works on bucks, and it works on does, too, of course. At ...

Ultimately, the choice between buckshot and birdshot is deeply personal, but training and preparation are equally important.

Patterning your shotgun is the only way to learn its effective range. Testing your gun with different choke and loads can increase your hitting percentages by helping you find the ideal pattern spread ...