What's the effective range for 12 gauge 00 buckshot on deer?
Should you target the heart, or are neck shots okay at close range?
I had to get a new nuisance permit for deer. I have deer eating my fruit trees and saplings within a few hundred yards of neighbor's properties. What distance, shooting at a downwards angle, is safe from 00 traveling that far?
At times, the deer are coming within a few feet of my house. I could hit them with a 6' stick from my bathroom window. I can yell at them and they will just stare blankly at me. They are not often giving me the shooting angles I feel comfortable shooting in, when they are doing the damage up close.
Will 00 ricochet off of ground like a hayfield?
I think rifles and slugs could go farther than I feel comfortable with. I can legally use any round and harvest 8 deer, 24/7.
I might have to bait them to give me an angle that is safer. I am seeing deer in broad daylight, even mid day and at night. They have cost me thousands this year.
Keith
Never used 00 buckshot, knew a few in Michigan that used it, but in Ohio it was illegal to hunt with.
After reading some replies, it seems it could be dangerous in a populated area.
It would be like shooting 9-12, 22 rounds that can spread out quite a bit, and go a long ways.
22 250 Is the round I heard was a poachers choice. Because it shot flatter and had a longer range.
I know farmers wouldn't let people hunt woodchucks with a 22 , but would a high-powered rifle, because the bullets would bust up when they hit the ground or rock.
Maybe like you say, shooting down on them would be the better idea.
