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
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
Barrel
Lead
Barrel
Lead
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.
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.
air soft pellets
@170 pellets per oz. Good for phesant.
Steel or lead pellets... you know, the stuff they already come loaded with.