Brass hulls and buckshot... can it be done?

[Dakota Widowmaker]

For the Magtech brass hulls, has anyone here actually loaded them with buckshot? I am thinking an "0" size.

I plan to use some shot buffer... GRITS!!!

I am also going to make a "paper plate shot cup", like what others have posted elsewhere.

Wouldn't the fact that the brass hulls are waterproof and sealed make them the perfect vessel for using grits in instead of the shot buffer used in smokeless shells?

Just curious.

[Adirondack Jack]

I don't see why not.  There used to be mil spec steel cased buckshot loads (vietnam era), so why not brass?  I'd be looking to use an inch of fiber filler to cushion things and the paper shot cup, and if you must, grits, and work up the powder charge gradually

[Dick Dastardly]

I see no reason why buckshot shouldn't load up just fine in brass hulls.  I'd use a 70+ grain FFg BP powder charge, an over powder card and a half inch lubed fiber wad.  I'd stack in the pellets and sift some Ballistic Products buffer down till the pellets almost "floated" in the buffer.  Then, I'd use a glued in overshot card with a crimp.

You will want to pattern 'em to make sure they are giving you killing concentrations of pellets at the distance you need to shoot.

Good luck,

DD-DLoS

[Singing Bear]

A friend gave me an old box of brass hulled OO buck.
Opened one up and found at least an inch of cushion wad over a smokeless load and no shot cup.  It was topped off with a waxed card wad then crimped.  Don't see any reason why it wouldn't work in modern Magtech brass hulls and BP.

[Wills Point Pete]

 I have loaded lots of buckshot loads in Mag Tech Brass Shells with the One True Powder. It works just fine. I have used both the Circle Fly Fiber Wads and the Winchester Red Wads, my ChiCom Mule Ear Double patterns better with the plastic shotcup wads over the over the one eighth inch overpowder wads.

I have not used grits as a shot buffer, instead I use Puff-Lon or sometimes number nine birdshot.That number nine shot makes for some sporty recoil but it has it's good side, too. Say my shotgun is loaded with a couple rounds of nine 00 buckshot, buffered with number nine birdshot. This means I'm in business if somebody is messin' around with the tractor or something and if there is a sneaky snake lounging about the yard, he is dead meat, too.

Oh and twelve buckshot works too only I wouldn't buffer that with lead birdshot.