Originally Posted by OlTimer
#1 buckshot will give you 24 (30 caliber) pellets, pretty lethal in the rib cage, use a full choke. I kill a lot of hogs with that round.

Number 1 buck shot...I hunted with a friends wife and their son ... the father asks me please sit with my boy and wife and try to help him shoot a deer , all the while the daddy sits in another stand and my brother in another... I was like okay.... pretty wife ..eager son and us sitting in the hayloft of a barn... he's got a single shot 20 gauge and #1 buckshot... small buck comes out eating at a molasses and corn mix like a couple hours after we got in the hayloft... his mom is like OMG a deer ... with excitement the boy puts the barrel in a cut out ..points it at the deer... I says ...hit him the chest...

He pulls the trigger ...boom... buck runs into the brush... he's so excited his mom too. We get out of the hayloft and I walk over to where the buck ran into the brush... the buck was laying dead right where it jumped in... after carefully examining the buck...I find one ...just one #1 pellet had hit the buck right in the boiler room and was enough to drop him dead with in feet of where he shot it. I figure he must have been aiming too low and got lucky to have one pellet find the kill spot.. The young boy was so excited he and his mom kept hugging me and well I.....

As the Dad and my brother get back to the camp site they're both astonished ...there's a buck on the ground and they both didn't even see a deer... had to tell it.... if a youngin can kill a deer with just one #1 buckshot pellet so can older folks. #1 buck shot... yeah.