if were talking plain unplated lead buckshot, I could see it might foul the rifeling and dirty it up some, don't know about doing any serious harm I have my concealed carry permit and carry 24/7 basicly anyway maybe I'll just stick with 2 guns. as we say in N.Y. one is none. a N.Y. reload, a BUG (back up gun )would be handy if chased up a tree,or the scope got dropped in muddy water or otherwise dirtied up. thats one reason I always bring along 2 guns, be it rifle or shotgun, one scoped one un-scoped
I don't think it will hurt it none,but it will spiral the load and be very inaccurate.
I did not know the answer either. I did a quick search, and the general consensus is it is a no-no. It seems to leave a big "donut" hole in the pattern, which gets worse with distance. Also fouls the rifling very bad
Here is one forum blog about it
Just google "shooting buckshot in rifled barrel" and you can see all the info on line
crock, that setup I saw you using seems pretty good. a low powered scope on a smoothbore 12 ga, can interchange slugs or buckshot. I haven't shot slugs thru a smoothbore in decades. how does it group 4" at 50 yds?
