Reduced Recoil?

[Sulaco]

I have been seeing and hearing a lot about these new reduced recoil loads lately and was wondering what you guys thought.

I have an old 870 Express and bought a 20" rifle sights barrel for it last year. I am heading to the range in the morning and wanted to run some smooth slugs down it and see how this fancy new rifled choke works out. I also want to stoke it with some buckshot and a cylinder choke for home defense use.

I am partial to Remington ammo so I was looking at the new Buckhammer reduced recoil loads and the same in buckshot. Any opinions?

Thanks!

[danurve]

The "Buckhammers" have more then enough 100 yard energy, but the design of the slug is odd to me. Designed for rifled barrels / rifled chokes but it is not a conventional sabot round. The lead will make contact with your rifling. Just like a foster slug would.

The Buckhammers design then uses the projectile not the sabot to produce the spin. Remington also claims they are the hardest hitting, most accurate, higest energy - yadda yadda. An inaccurate statement if you do your own balistic comparisons to sabot or coventional slugs. Take the Brenekke classic or partition sabot for example.

Now for reduced recoil - this might be your jazz I don't know.

[quatin]

Did someone say box o truth?

http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot20.htm

[EdLaver]

Thats a very informative review, thanks for sharing quatin .