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Hey guys, I know this has been asked before but I checked the search and couldn't find anything so here goes.

Moss or Rem given the same make-up. 12 gauge 18.5" barrel NO pistol grips.
First shooting 00 buck then shooting slug. Using standerd 2.75 shells with full choke.

What would the max. kill range be of eac?.

Would a rifled barrel make any differance?

[Fred Fuller]

It may sound tiresome but it's the truth- "It's the Indian, not the arrow." In other words, IF the shooter can hit with the gun... then next, the answer depends on the loads used and how well they shoot in that particular barrel. To quote another Shotgun Yoda- "The most consistent thing about shotguns is their inconsistency."

So, assuming a shooter who can hit what is shot at in the first place,

And assuming a shooter who has done the necessary homework and found what buckshot and slug loads work well in the gun,

And not worrying about choke at all, because I know of no factory made 18.5" full choke barrels, and wouldn't like to shoot slugs out of one if I had it,

THEN I'd figure a good tight patterning load of buckshot could be counted on to keep all its pellets on target and be fairly dependably lethal out to about 35 yards, given that a single buckshot pellet has been known to kill at almost 100 yards, which is why keeping them all on the intended target is important,

AND good rifled slugs ought to be good out to about a hundred yards or so, for a practiced shooter with a bead sight. With rifle sights or ghost rings, maybe a bit further out.

Rifled barrels are for sabot slugs only, they suck at shooting buckshot.

I say that based on my own experimentation with a pet Remington 870, which has an 18 1/8" factory Police barrel, CYL bore and bead sight, used with Federal LE 127-00 9 pellet 00 buckshot at 1325FPS and Brenneke KO slugs at 1600FPS. And a few years of other various messing around with shotguns.

Of course, YMMV...

hth,

lpl

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thank you Lee that was very interesting, but back to my original question what is the max range of a shotgun????

Take a shotgun, lock it in a gunvise shoot it in an open field with no obstructions.. What is the max. kill range????

[Fred Fuller]

Maximum range generally means how far will a given projectile go when fired. Is that what you mean?

lpl