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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - What practice/target ammo for a 870?

Posted: 4/19/2017 10:24:24 AM EDT

I'm planning on an order from SGAMMO. What do you guys recommend?

Posted: 4/19/2017 5:53:24 PM EDT

[#1]

Buckshot? Bird shot?

Posted: 4/20/2017 1:09:40 PM EDT

[#2]

For practice and 3 gun matches ( steel knock down targets) I buy the birdshot they sell at Walmart, usually the #7.5 shot. Since your using it in a 870, you can get the 1 oz. loads.
The price for birdshot at SGAMMO didn't seem that good, $7 a box,it's cheaper at Walmart.

For buckshot and slugs get the low recoil loads, buy several different brands and see what shoots best in your gun.

Posted: 4/20/2017 1:39:51 PM EDT

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Buckshot.

Posted: 4/20/2017 4:50:57 PM EDT

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I've had good luck with all Federal buck loads, as well as Remington, Rio, S&B, and Fiocchi.

Posted: 4/22/2017 2:21:20 PM EDT

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Seller & Bellot 12-pellet 00 buck is cheap and reliable. It patterns like a blunderbuss out of my Mossberg 500, but my old Model 12 held a much more uniform pattern with the same shells. It's definitely old-school technology, with its roll-crimp, no buffer material and pre-deformed pellets, and horsehair wadding material, that smells like burnt hair after shooting a bunch of them.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - What practice/target ammo for a 870?

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