At close range you don’t necessarily need buckshot. Birdshot will blow a hole the size of a silver dollar in a railroad tie at close range.
Yeah, I had a friend up in the Southern Tier in NY state, he was out Pheasant hunting and noticed some tree branches moving with brush around it, he pulled the branches aside and there was a bear standing upright directly in front of him, he swung the shotgun around and fired out of reflex. It took a quarter of the top of the skull off with birdshot.
Yeah, I had a friend up in the Southern Tier in NY state, he was out Pheasant hunting and noticed some tree branches moving with brush around it, he pulled the branches aside and there was a bear standing upright directly in front of him, he swung the shotgun around and fired out of reflex. It took a quarter of the top of the skull and rear third of the nose off with birdshot. That was almost point blank with a bird barrel.
Sorry for the double post there.
I've shot a lot of weapons, and thousands of rounds of ammunition and didn't know this (shooting a RR tie at close range doesn't sound too safe to me). How deep does it penetrate, or does it go all the way through?