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DUGABOY1
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Reged: 02/02/03
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Loc: TEXAS USA

Re: Buckshot & Big Cats
27/07/04 10:51 AM

I have a shotgun that was made exactly for the close in follow up of cats! It is a Valmet lion O/U, 12 ga, with 20" barrels, and express sights, and a single trigger. I use it with Brenneke slugs, and it will put both barrels in a tea cup out to 15 yds! That is about as good as a shotgun will get, because at 5 yds, no matter what shot pellets you use they will hit as one bullet, and farther away the pattern is too IFEY with buck shot. On top of that buck shot doesn't penetrate well on tough muscle, and hide. They are so well known for wounding, that the Texas Game laws refuse to allow buckshot for whitetail hunting, and require a slug if a shotgun is used for deer. If that stuff wounds that many whitetail, I certainly do not want to go into the weeds with a pissed off 400 lb lion! The slugs are far better, in my opinion, and a light double rifle chambered for somthing like a 450NE 3 1/4", or 450/400 makes my day a lot better. Thank God I haven't had to prove anything I've stated here, in the bush, with a mad lion!

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Buckshot & Big Cats	Ingwe	23/07/04 09:11 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	iqbal	28/07/04 01:59 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	NE450No2	28/07/04 12:13 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	NitroX	28/07/04 01:49 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Will	29/07/04 09:52 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Ingwe	28/07/04 01:28 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	canada	28/07/04 01:37 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	AdamTayler	01/08/04 06:51 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Ingwe	01/08/04 09:20 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	canada	01/08/04 08:54 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	shakari	02/08/04 04:44 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	mikeh416Rigby	02/08/04 08:31 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	mickey	23/07/04 11:33 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Will	24/07/04 11:55 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	atkinson6	27/07/04 05:23 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	DUGABOY1	27/07/04 10:51 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	4seventy	27/07/04 12:53 PM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Ingwe	27/07/04 11:37 AM
Re: Buckshot & Big Cats	Ingwe	27/07/04 06:58 AM

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