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Buckshot, as its name suggests, is shot for bucks. A load of buckshot consists of a few very large pellets loaded into a shotgun shell. It works on bucks, and it works on does, too, of course. At ...

The terms “buckshot” and “birdshot” are often used interchangeably by casual shotgunners. But even though both are pellets fired from shotguns they are very different things. Generally speaking, the ...