Birdshot/buckshot in a rifled barrel.
Hello, what can I expect firing buckshot or birdshot through a rifled barrel shotgun? A very bad spread out? to ruin the barrel? Please some advices. Thank you.
Breech
Breech
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I doubt the birdshot would harm the barrel but your patterns will certainly suffer.
Gun control is hitting what your aiming at.0 -
You will fill the rifling full of lead over time, and then accuracy will bullets will be poor. 
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke0 -
"...very bad spread out?..." As in a pattern full of holes? Yep. Both buckshot(that's useless for any game) and birdshot are in a plastic wad. It's sort of a cup that the shot sits in until it exits the barrel on firing. The wad would have the same spin put on it a slug does. The shot pattern will fly in a spiral causing a really bad pattern for hunting. There won't be any damage to your barrel. Nor will there be any leading. The lead, or steel shot for that matter, will never touch the rifling. 0 -
On the plus side : you won't miss a rabbit or pheasant inside 20 yards!! Most hunters would be better off with no choke! 0 -
I bought a Rem. 510 Smoothbore for shooting this ammo. Sharp little rifle they can be had fairly cheap too. 0 -
You would over time fill the rifling up with lead and the slug barrel would be useless to dhout slugs in. And your patter with bird shot would be the pits.
As to Sunrays statment about buck shot being worthless on game YOU are very much worng. I live in the deep South and most place where we hunt white tail deer a rifle is all but useless because of the thick undergrowth. Buck shot is deadly on a white tail deer. For years all we could use down here was buck shot, no rifles were allowed and half the managment areas would not allow slugs either. I have personaly taken white tail at 75 yards with buck shot and have seen more than one white tail taken at over 100 yards with buck shot. And We still run deer with dogs also so most of our shots are at running deer. We don't always hunt in the thickits alot of our hunting is done on old clear cuts so a 100 yard shot is not uncommon. Before I get a ton of hate mail you should come South Mississippi or most any Southern state and try this style of hunting before you turn your nose up at it. You may just get hooked.
Hornet0 -
Hey Hornet, done did it outside BayooBlue! Ayeeeeeeeeeeeeeee![:p]. Wish I was there now.[:(] 0 -
Darned, I always say I won't do it but here I go again.
I have seen tons of shot dead whitetail deer, from yearlings to 200 lb bucks and 90% of them were killed with buckshot or with Marlin & Winchester carbines - both often maligned on this forum and deemed useless by many for taking game the size of deer. I don't guess I'll ever understand the thinking behind that.
While there are admittedly lots of hit deer that don't go down right away, the hunt continues with most everyone participating involved in tracking and finding and recovering the deer. I'd guess there are more lost hits by muzzleloaders and archers, maybe mostly because they hunt in smaller parties without access to a dog.
As to the filled rifling, I don't know. I've only ever shot buckshot and slugs out a regular smoothbore shotgun barrel. Why is it that the lead from buckshot would adversely affect rifling while lead from a 30 cal bullet would not have a similar effect on a carbine barrel? I am curious here and confess a complete lack of experience with these dynamics as I do not own nor have ever used a rifled shotgun barrel.
"The reward of a thing well done is to have it done." - Emerson0 -
Thank you all! My question has been answered. Anyway I don't hunt. My interest in guns are related to the mechanical features and the materials and manufacturing processes. I have several old guns I have inherited and some others I have bought. Well,great I can count with people can answer any question.
Breech0 -
As has been stated, the pattern will be crappy. But specifically it will donut, meaning the shot will tend to cluster on the outer edges and leave a dead space in the center. This is due to the centrifugal force applied to the shot load by the rifling. 0
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