Personal Protection: 12 Gauge Low Recoil #4 Buckshot

[Music] hi Robin rinse this please Barrow gunfire here in the background recently we did a presentation on reduced recoil double-aught buck ammunition in your personal protection home defense shotgun now when people select a 12-gauge shotgun for personal protection home defense and I do mean specifically a 12-gauge shotgun many people will load with many different types of ammunition but double-aught buck is probably the most common projectile but when we're talking about shotguns for personal protection home defense another type of projectile is very commonly used or if not commonly used at least commonly discussed is number four buckshot so today we're going to shoot some 12-gauge number four buck reduced recoil and what I have is PMC 12-gauge two and three-quarter inch number four buck low recoil ammunition and we'll compare that to some types of number four buck that I would consider typical winchester super axe Remington greeting yellow box federal blue box all of which are 12-gauge two and three-quarter inch number four buck twenty-seven pellet with an advertised velocity on each box expressed as one thousand three hundred and twenty five feet per second now by contrast our PMC low velocity ammunition has an advertised velocity stamped on the box of 1,200 feet per second 125 feet per second less and we know that when using reduced recoil ammunition we are giving away velocity or pellet count or both so we're giving away 125 feet per second but what about pellet count that's interesting in this case when you buy shotgun ammunition it's typically labeled on the box is how much shot is in each shell now when you buy birdshot ammo that's often expressed in terms of weight this birdshot is labeled as having one and one quarter ounce of shot but when you buy buckshot that's usually expressed in terms of pellet count double ought buck nine pellet double-aught buck twelve pellet number four buck twenty-seven pellet but our PMC ammunition is labeled as having one ounce of number four buck so how much shot is that well i cut two of these shells apart and i discovered that they have 28 pellets in each shell so not only are we not giving away a pellet count we're actually getting one more pellet but how will the PMC low recoil ammunition compared to our more typical ammunition let's find out and we'll start with some tedious chronograph testing I've said this before we typically do chronograph testing at 7 yards because the FBI spent decades telling us that 7 yards was the mean distance for a lethal confrontation but when I'm using a shotgun loaded with multiple projectile rounds for the safety of the chronograph I shoot at four yards so I've got my Mossberg model 500 loaded with our Remington green and yellow box 12-gauge two and three-quarter inch number four buck let's see what kind of velocities we get 13 35 1370 1338 1295 and 13 35 let's see how that stacks up against our other types of ammo and now our winchester super x 12-gauge 2 and 3/4 inch number four buck 27 pellet 1213 12:41 1202 1202 and 1231 let's try another type of family and now our federal blue box 12-gauge two and three-quarter inch number four buck 27 pellet 1275 1285 1290 12 18 and 12 46 now let's see how those compare to our PMC and now our PMC 12-gauge two and three-quarter inch low recoil ammunition number four buck 28 pellet 10:58 1074 1095 1063 and 1066 and now let's go crunch the numbers as I've said before not all shotgun ammunition is created equal and chronographs don't always agree with each other but today I saw that the Remington ammunition had a lot more velocity than the other types and a lot more velocity than what I expected so now I've got five more rounds of the Remington greeting yellowbox 12-gauge torn three-quarter inch number four buck 27 pellet I'm gonna cronograph this and see if we get any different readings than we did the first time twelve ninety six thirteen twelve twelve seventy one thirteen eleven and twelve seventy six those numbers make a lot more sense to me and I really can't explain why we got such different numbers when we started and no it wasn't a cold barrel I fired shots before we started doing the chronograph testing but either way now let's go crunch those numbers well I crunched the numbers and here is the results now at the remand didn't got a mean velocity of thirteen thirty four then we fired five more shots of Remington got a mean velocity of twelve ninety three and I think that's the more accurate reading with the federal blue box got a mean velocity of twelve sixty two and with the Winchester twelve eighteen now you saw that when I was firing the Winchester ammunition I got the same reading twice in a row that's indicative there may have been a malfunction so I threw out one of those 1202 s and off-camera fired one more shot got a velocity of 1206 and that's what I used for the mean now with our PMC ammunition we see a mean velocity of 1071 that's 147 feet per second less than our slowest of the typical ammunition so it's definitely a lot less powerful but how much less recoil was there well in my subjective perception I could tell that there was less recoil but I didn't think it was enough to make a difference if a particularly likely built person or an inexperienced shooter was finding the recoil these ammunitions to be prohibitive I do not perceive that they would shoot the PMC ammunition and have a significant amount leave it probably wouldn't make enough difference to make a difference so we see our pmc ammunition is significantly less powerful does not have significantly less recoil how effective will it be let's see if we can put that to the test I've got my Mossberg model 500 shotgun with its twenty and a half inch improved cylinder bore barrel and I'll shoot this shootin C target from 25 yards with our various types of ammunition and see how they compare and we'll start with our Remington green and yellow box number for buck 27 so out of 27 pellets have 26 impacts 16 on the shootin sea and then 10 I covered with the red pasty so they'd be easier to see now my aiming point was right here so with my shotgun this ammo patterns a little bit high but still not a bad pattern so I'll paste up shot holes on the shoot and see target and shoot one more shot with this remington ammo from 25 yards to see if we can confirm these results so again out of 27 pellets we have 26 impacts 13 on the shootin sea and 13 on the cardboard that I've marked at the yellow pasties so fairly consistent result and not a bad pattern so now I'll put up a new shoot and see target and we'll see how that compares to our Winchester ammunition with our Winchester ammunition with 27 pellets we see 16 impacts on the shootin sea and 11 impacts on the cardboard now with the remington ammunition marked with the red and yellow pasties those that weren't on the shootin sea were mainly above but with the winchester ammunition marked with the blue pasties those that didn't hit the shootin sea target were centered around the target so it looks like we might have a different point of impact even though our point of aim is the same so I'll paste up these shot holes on this shootin sea target and fire one more shot from 25 with the Winchester and see if we can confirm these results so now out of our 27 pellets we have 27 impacts 19 on the shooting scene and 8 around the target marked with the green pasties it looks like there's more than 19 on the shoot and see because it knocked off a couple of the pasties that were already there but what we see is that both the Remington and the Winchester ammunition hold fairly good patterns but the Remington definitely patterned higher and this shows us that different ammunition will perform differently in different guns and you have to pattern your own shotgun with the ammunition you intend to use but now that we have these results we'll take down this target put up a new piece of cardboard new shootin C and we'll shoot our pmc ammunition and see how it compares the pmc ammunition has 28 pellets and what we see is 12 on our shootin C target and then 16 on our cardboard marked with the yellow pasties so I'll paste up the shot holes on this shootin C and we'll fire a second shot and see if we can confirm these results with our first shot of PMC ammunition we had 12 hits on the shootin C and then 16 on the cardboard with our second shot we had 12 hits on the shootin C and then 15 on cardboard so very consistent results but compared to our other types of ammunition this pattern is certainly not any better if anything it's worse so in terms of pellets on paper the effectiveness of our low recoil ammunition I'd say is mediocre but how about its effectiveness in terms of penetration let's put that to the test to evaluate penetration we'll use the meat target now for those who haven't seen it before the meat target is leather jacket skin followed by pork steak pectorals pork ribs bag of oranges to simulate lung tissue more pork ribs on the back four layers of t-shirt on the front four layers t-shirt on the back and the whole thing followed by the new and improved high-tech police bullets top I'll shoot there some 10 yards with my Mossberg 500 which is loaded with our Remington greening yellow box 12-gauge 23 quarter-inch number four buck 27 pellet we'll evaluate the results put together a new meat target shoot it with our low recoil pmc ammunition and see how those results compare well with our number for buckshot we see a lot of holes in our pork chop pectoral a lot of holes and the ribs on the front of the target but where the projectiles actually hit rib bones a couple of them are broken but we don't see as much damage as you typically see with the larger pellets we see a lot of damage to our orange lung tissue and as far as the ribs on the back there's some damage here but a lot of the pellets were stopped by the ribs some were stopped in the ribs some of the pellets were stopped by the t-shirt a few made it through the first or second layer of fleece so I would say that our number for buckshot would be effective on the intended target as long as you weren't trying to shoot anything that was particularly rotund if you were being stalked by a sumo you might want to go with bigger shot but now let's put together a new meat target shoot it with our PMC low velocity ammunition and see what kind of results we get with that with our low velocity buckshot again we see a lot of holes in our pork steak petrol and a lot of holes and ribs on the front of the target but in this case a few of the pellets were stopped by the ribs on the front of the target we see a lot of damage to our french lung tissue but as far as our ribs on the back of the target as we're before a few were stopped by the ribs some were stopped in the ribs if you made it through in this case most of the pellets were stopped by the ribs didn't penetrate the ribs at all some of the pellets were stuck in the ribs and as far as I could tell only two actually made it through the ribs on the back of the target now when I say that projectiles were stopped by the t-shirt on the back of the target what I mean is that they're caught in the t-shirt they're actually in there somewhere in this case although two pellets made it through the ribs on the back of the target they were stopped by the t-shirt in the sense that they just fell onto the table they weren't actually in the t-shirt material at all and of course none made it through to the high-tech least bullet stop so when comparing our full-power buckshot to our low-velocity buckshot I am seeing a significantly reduced amount of penetration so what's the takeaway from all of this well when we evaluated our low recoil double lot buck there was definitely significantly less recoil but in my observation it still maintained a high level of effectiveness on our meat target but in talking about our PMC low velocity number for block shot well it definitely had less velocity it definitely had not very impressive patterns it definitely had less penetration in our meat target but as far as less felt recoil in my subjective evaluation I could feel less recoil but in my opinion not enough less to make any significant difference for virtually any shooter so I would have a difficult time finding any application for this ammunition so as always don't try this at home on what to call a professional and thanks for watching our PMC low velocity number for buckshot ammunition video [Music]

Channel: Paul Harrell

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Length: 14min 33sec (873 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 12 2019