12 gauge HD ammo?

My first round is a bird shot round that I emptied out and filled the wad with wax. The rest are 3" 00 buck.

#1 Buck.

835 Mossy- 2 rounds of 2 Ball (2 50 cal balls with 4/5 shot filler)3" magnum, followed by 3 rounds of 3 Ball (3 50 call balls with 4/5 shot filler) 3 1/2" magnum

500 Mossy- 2 rounds of 2 Ball, 2 rounds 00 Buck, last round a slug, all 3" magnums except the buck

Reloads for each in stock sock shell carriers

00 buck - all rounds

11 rounds of Rio reduced recoil 00 buck, 9 pellets. 4 one ounce Remington slugs in the SpeedFeed stock.

12 pellet 00 buck. all rounds.

No. 1 Buck.

d dupleks hexolit32

8 rounds of 2 3/4 #4 buck in the tube backed up with 3 rounds of 3" 00 buck and 3 rounds of 3" HP slug on a sidesaddle.

Then there's the bayonet...





...just kidding about the bayonet...




...most of the time...

OO , slug, OO, slug, OO, slug, OO , slug. But to tell the truth the shotgun would be the last gun I would pick up for inside the house.

#1 buck this mixed mag stuff is senseless to me.

do you load 4 hp's then 2 swc's then 2 fmj's in a pistol?

the point is to use a round that will do the job and work within the confines and restrictions of your living space.

if the motion alarms pick up a bad guy and the siren doesn't scare the crap out of him, i will wait around the corner at the top of the steps and announce that I'm armed and LE in enroute. I can cover a 3.5 ft stairwell with #1 buck and never shoot toward the kids rooms.

no sense going down like a Holywood hero and risk leaving my family without me or worse, get in a gunfight and have one go through the ceiling.

i doubt i'll have time to choose which round to fire and then have to explain why i have 5 choices WHEN, not if, the lawyers ask.

2 firey cents. sorry - long day and I'm pissy

I don't like mixing the mag either, but I do like options, as even the best laid plans may not work out the way you want.

House guns here have Federal LE127 00 in the magazine, Brenneke KO slugs in the Sidesaddle. Except for my wife's 870- she uses all slugs. She carries that one along with us when we visit her parents, there's been a pesky black bear around there from time to time. There's only the two of us in the house and no close neighbors, so the degree of penetration of our shotgun loads is only of concern to bad guys.

Mixing loads in the magazine? Bad idea. You need to know what's coming out of the muzzle every time you press the trigger, and under pressure it's nigh impossible to keep up with how many rounds of what you've fired. I've seen dozens of shooters who couldn't keep count of rounds fired in a fast-moving drill in a mere shotgun class, and that wasn't even real life.

If you think you might need a slug, keep some handy and learn to run a select-slug drill...

JMHO/YMMV,

lpl

6 rounds of 3" mag #1 buck.

00 for the most part, with slugs in a side saddle. One shotgun here has 4 buck in it, ground level weapon where a bit less penetration is a good thing.

Im suprised no one has poped up with an S-12 load set...

Ive taken to keeping 2 5rd mags loaded with 9 pellet 00 buck and two 5 rd mags loaded with 1oz rifled slugs nearby. mixing rounds in the same load seems to be asking for trouble.

Wax Slug??? What's that for?

I keep #4 Buckshot in a short 12ga. 00 Buckshot in the shellholder mounted to the reciever (00 because that's just what I have on hand).

I load with #4 bird. At the range of my one bedroom apartment it's still going to be an almost solid mass when it hits and should be light enough to keep from over penetrating into neighboring apartments. Once I move into a house I will switch to 00 buck.

7 rounds of Remington magnum 00 buck

If I do my part, I am confident I can take care of nearly any problem with 5 rounds of 00 buck. No reason to complicate things.

anyone know about this wax slug?

I'd imagine the wax slug mainly serves as a non-lethal but very painful way to get someone to leave. Could be that the guy is nice and wants to give someone the chance to not be killed if they leave on the first shot.

t_dickinson said:

#1 buck this mixed mag stuff is senseless to me.

do you load 4 hp's then 2 swc's then 2 fmj's in a pistol?

the point is to use a round that will do the job and work within the confines and restrictions of your living space.

i doubt i'll have time to choose which round to fire and then have to explain why i have 5 choices WHEN, not if, the lawyers ask.

2 firey cents. sorry - long day and I'm pissy

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My sentiments exactly. For a while I kept my 590 loaded with a mixed bag but realized it was nonsense for me to think I could keep track or, as someone has suggested, that I could jack out the first few birdshot rounds if I really felt I needed to get to the 00 in a hurry. Seriously, that's what he said. Now I keep all 8 rounds of #1 buck (sixteen pellets) in the tube, none chambered and safety off.