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Depends on choke, distance and end state.
60 to 80 percent to make clean, ethical kills , anything less than 50 percent is unethical and may not kill the animal it may just run away and suffer
60 to 80 percent to make clean, ethical kills , anything less than 50 percent is unethical and may not kill the animal it may just run away and suffer
Pellets or slugs. shotguns usually shoot shot or pellets, but you can shoot slugs. in Indiana we use a shotgun to hunt deer and use shotgun slugs, better to use a barrel with no choke in it. cylinder bore preferred.
Lead
Barrel
Lead
Barrel
Tubes that constrict the column of shotgun pellets as they exit the barrel
Note: The shotgun does not have "bullets" it has shells which are the casings and generally pellets inside the casing (of different gauge's); the number of pellets vary according to the gauge or size of the pellet. The smaller the pellet, the more there are of them.
@170 pellets per oz. Good for phesant.
air soft pellets