I've been experimenting with different types and manufactures of 12ga ammo. I'm trying to see which shoots best; what is everyones favorite ammo to shoot,hunt,etc.

So far I enjoy shooting Centurion Slugs, even though the after a day of shooting your shoulder is a bit raw. They are the cheapest load I found besides some of the slugs you find at Walmart. For me there is nothing better than shooting a slug at targets and seeing the massive hole on the other side.

My personal favorite which has become difficult to get a hold of recently is Federal Tactical LE FliteControl 00 buck 9 pellet low recoil (LE132 00). The PD132 with FliteControl is the same load, but more expensive and I have a hard time spending 8 to 9 dollars for 5 rounds.

A very close second is Hornady TAP (Tactical Application Police) VersaTite (same as FliteControl) 8 pellet 00 buck low recoil. It patterns almost as well as the Federal.

That said, Winchester SuperX at HD ranges will work if ever needed and its nearly half the price, I just wouldnt trust it if ever I had to push the range on it, I wouldnt be able to predict the placement of the errant pellets. The Federal I could push to 50 yards potentially, and is at least hunting ammo worthy for close stuff.

I have a few other 00 buckshot loads I'm testing soon, including Winchester Ranger low recoil 9 pellet 00 buck which is the same load as the Winchester "WinLite".

For slugs, I like the Federal TruBall 1 oz. rifled slug low recoil and Winchester Ranger 1 oz. rifled slug low recoil. Both so far have grouped nearly identically for me. The Federal full power (1600 FPS) are a blast, but you can keep em!

I do the same thing DT...buy the cheap Centurion rounds for practice and plinking...and then when it come time for serious work, I'm with Rossignol...buying the Federal and Hornady rounds that I've already patterned at set distances for HD.

Kent faststeel 3" #2 12G for ducks and geese, hornady sst 23/4" 300grn sabots 12G deer and black bear, hornady bthp 168 grn match 308, cci hp17 grn 17hmr, 22 blazers 22LR, hornady 55 grn vmax 223. whinchester platinum tip 20G sabots deer, Just to name afew.

Wow! Need to update after some recent shooting!

I really dig the Winchester Ranger 00 9 pellet low recoil! It patterned pretty well for me from a 20" Vang Comp barrel! Not as well as the Federal FC, but not bad!

Also, we fired a bunch of the Federal Premium .410 2 1/2" 000 buck 4 pellet handgun loads from Allisons .410 shotgun! Excellent patterns with a little range!

I have more stuff I'm looking into!

Wow, where to start?

For shotgun, in both my home defense and police duty load I have Federal LEB127 LRS TRUBALL Low Recoil HP Rifled Slug. Buckshot is close by for backup, but I want a bit more precision and a slug provides me that. The TruBall slug is quite accurate and recoil is very manageable.

If you don't want to shoot a slug but want 00-Buckshot that is nearly as tight, there is no other choice but to get some Federal LE127 00 Premium Law Enforcement 00 Buckshot with FliteControl Wad. Trust me. Don't waste time with anything other than Federal FliteControl Buckshot if 00 is what you seek.

My .45Auto choice is one of three. All are 230-grain. Either the Speer Gold Dot load, or Federal's excellent HST, or (believe it or not) Winchester White Box Personal Protection JHP. Yep the stuff you can get at WalMart or Academy is very good .45Auto hollow point ammunition. Winchester Ranger Bonded is incredibly good as well.

For .40S&W it's 180-gr Federal HST all the way, baby. Nothing else. Nothing better.

In 10mmAuto I can't find anything better than Winchester Silvertip 175-gr or Georgia Arms 180-gr GoldDot new factory ammo. I know, Buffalo Bore and (gak!) Double Tap are supposed to go faster but it's not all about speed. It's about bullet performance. Swamp Fox 10mm Auto is worth looking into and buying but it's a bit too fast for most things you will encounter. If you want to hunt with a Ten-mm get a 200-gr hard cast Wide Flat Meplat with gas-check round.

Nine-Millimeter: That's a toss up. I like 147s going as fast as they can be pushed, like a 147-gr XTP doing 1100-fps, or equally good is a Winchester 147-gr Ranger. If I didn't have such strong 147s I would go with Speer's Gold Dot 124-gr +P which is a very reliable and very predictable round that FBI stats back up. Honorable mention goes to Winchester Ranger 127-gr +P+ Bonded which is frikkin' wickid in a full sized gun but isn't all that great in a mini/compact nine.

Snub-nose J-frame revolver? Only one choice. A 148-gr hard cast lead full wadcutter doing about 850-fps. You can make these yourself or buy them from Buffalo-Bore. No hollow points because they don't work reliably. Even the 135-gr Short Barrel Gold Dot doesn't cause such a deeply penetrating wound as the 148 cast WC which allows air into the entry wound or else lets blood quickly exit out thru the entrance wound. Google "tension pneumothorax" to understand why you have to have an airway in. You aren't going to cause massive trauma with a snubbie .38 but you can at least hope for either a CNS shot or a wound that collapses lungs, compresses the heart, and lowers blood pressure as quickly as possible.

For a rifle? Well, practically anything you present has the potential damage of, well... a rifle.

unless it's a rimfire round, just about any rifle effectively employed and accurately delivered beats any handgun and most shotguns.

In my 870 Express I keep Hornady TAP 00 Buckshot with the Versatite wad. Very impressed by it.

In my Daniel Defense M4V1 I keep 75-grain Hornady TAP .223

In my Beretta PX4 .40 I keep 180-grain Federal HST.

In my Ruger LCP .380 I keep 102-grain Remington Golden Saber.

In my Ruger 10/22 I keep CCI Stingers in 25-round magazine.

These, of course, are combat/carry/defense loads. For plinking, it's anything cheap.

LawScholar~

I'm glad to see another new member here! We're building off of the original and very popular Mossbergowners.com beginning and we're pleased that you joined this gun board.

Looking down your list I think you have all your SD ammo very well thought out. Other than my indiviudual preference of a different shotgun round as a "first choice", I concede that every choice you've made is one that I myself would probably have in my BOB! And truthfully that TAP buckshot load is a very close second or third out of MANY in my experience!

Please, take a moment to start a thread in the New Member Welcome Area and let us get to know a little bit about you.

P.S. ~ I'd LOVE to see a pic or two of your DD M4....

Hey nitesite! Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm pretty active on a handful of boards (The Firing Line, GlockTalk, etc.). I found this forum by searching "Remington" on my Tapatalk iPhone app. Happy to be on board!

Truth be told, the Federal LE with Flitecontrol was my first choice, but it's darn near impossible to find in my neck of the woods.

I'll get a few DDM4 shots up ASAP

Welcome to the Remington Owners Forum LawScholar !!

DoubleTap wrote:So far I enjoy shooting Centurion Slugs, even though the after a day of shooting your shoulder is a bit raw. They are the cheapest load I found besides some of the slugs you find at Walmart. For me there is nothing better than shooting a slug at targets and seeing the massive hole on the other side.

I'm with you on the Centurions. My local range only allows slug ammo so the Centurions are pretty much all I ever get to shoot. They're by far the cheapest I've found, especially when I order them in bulk. I put 50 rounds down range on Sunday and was pretty sore the next day. It was well worth it though. I agree, there's nothing quite like seeing those giant holes appear on target!

I put ten rounds through this one at 50yds while I was trying out my new red dot...

I only buy Winchester Universal.

12ga/1200fps/1 1/8oz/8 shot.

Wish i could get a hold of some 9 shot but I haven't seen any in the local Wal MArt for a decent price. I plan on getting a press here within the next couple months and will try to use a 7/8oz or 1oz + 9shot.

yblaster2k wrote:I only buy Winchester Universal.

12ga/1200fps/1 1/8oz/8 shot.

Wish i could get a hold of some 9 shot but I haven't seen any in the local Wal MArt for a decent price. I plan on getting a press here within the next couple months and will try to use a 7/8oz or 1oz + 9shot.

Great if you are thinking of getting a press and beginning to reload!

Save hulls now if you haven't begun. The Winchester Universal hulls are okay and will give you a couple or three reloads each before the crimp folds begin breaking. Just decide what hulls you'll use and sort them by brand. There is load data for 1-oz loads with the right wads for your hulls, and a #9 7/8-oz load will still send a cloud of shot downrange!

Hornady SST 20 ga. slugs in our 1100 light 20'
Superformance in .257 & .270
Hornady Leverevolution .357 140 gr.FTX in my IMI Timberwolf rifle
Eley target in Kimber 82

.40 180 grain
357 I varie depending if it's a revolver or a automatic 158 grain
.45 230 grain
50. 500 grain
22 36 to 40 segmenting
308 175 to 208 grain amax
300 win mag 208 Amax or match
OO buck or OOO buck for my bennelli and thank goodness for my 6 25 round 22 Cal mags and 3 110 drums !! I was surprised how long it takes a 1022 to empty a drum!!!! Lol!!!
jason

All my centerfire rifle stuff is reloads, from 222, 223,243,2506,280,280imp.,7mmrem mag,308,3006,8mm rem mag,338 lapua, 375 h&h, up to 505 gibbs( special occasions). I probably forgot some. Shotgun, I fumbled into kent faststeel a couple years ago, love it in my 1187. RST in my old doubles, also fed 2oz.#5s in the 1187 for turkey. CCI rimfire in 22lr, and22mag. 9mm, and 45 auto, and 10mm practice and blasting all reloads, one powder, power pistol. 45 colt, unique, and 44 mag, 2400, when I can find it

Reloading is something I looked into awhile back...then the components weren't available when the factory ammo went up.

Still save all my brass...

Shooter, ive thought about shotgun reloading, metallic ive done for about 15 years. I started because I started to get into weird stuff, like blackpowder cartridge rifles, and long range rifles. I was also going through about 200 rounds a week in handgun, the boss(wife), wasnt too happy about that, financially. Some of the nice aspects, buying guns for a song, because of a odd chambering. The initial cost is the worst, my father in law was a wealth of info for me. I will give any advice or help I can

hammer 1 wrote:Shooter, ive thought about shotgun reloading, metallic ive done for about 15 years. I started because I started to get into weird stuff, like blackpowder cartridge rifles, and long range rifles. I was also going through about 200 rounds a week in handgun, the boss(wife), wasnt too happy about that, financially. Some of the nice aspects, buying guns for a song, because of a odd chambering. The initial cost is the worst, my father in law was a wealth of info for me. I will give any advice or help I can

Hammer~

Your stories and experiences and knowledge are going tot come in real handy here. I say "Bring It!!!!"

Not a problem at all. Love to do it

Bring some of your best stuff hammer 1.

I'm really anxious to hear about your exploits and reloading adventures!!!!!!!

It's homeloads for my 243, 105gr A max over H4831 or H414. Very accurate and hard hitting on foxes and deer. The Amax for hunting is not for everyone but it's been a great bullet for me.

The 270 gets fed whatever my bosses can buy, we have been into using copper bullets this last 5/6 years. The Federal Barnes triple shock x bullet were absolutely brilliant, very very accurate and hard hitting. The wound channel was something to be seen, a lot of internal damage done by the petals cutting their way through. Presently we are using Federal Trophy which is accurate enough but hasn't the knock down power of the x bullet. Did use Hornady 130gr GMX for a while but it was unreliable, some boxes would group 1/2 or less other boxes would not hit an A4 sheet of paper. Primers got the blame but we had lost confidence in it by the time the issues had been sorted.

Ranger22 wrote:It's homeloads for my 243, 105gr A max over H4831 or H414. Very accurate and hard hitting on foxes and deer. The Amax for hunting is not for everyone but it's been a great bullet for me.

The 270 gets fed whatever my bosses can buy, we have been into using copper bullets this last 5/6 years. The Federal Barnes triple shock x bullet were absolutely brilliant, very very accurate and hard hitting. The wound channel was something to be seen, a lot of internal damage done by the petals cutting their way through. Presently we are using Federal Trophy which is accurate enough but hasn't the knock down power of the x bullet. Did use Hornady 130gr GMX for a while but it was unreliable, some boxes would group 1/2 or less other boxes would not hit an A4 sheet of paper. Primers got the blame but we had lost confidence in it by the time the issues had been sorted.

Lots of good info in that post. Thank you for sharing your experiences.

It's good to share experiences