#4 Buck is one of my favorite shotgun loads. It “splits the difference” very well IMO.
And I’m baffled as to why Sierra, Hornady, or someone doesn’t make a reasonably priced soft point in the 62-65 grain range. Put a canalure on it and it’d be just about ideal for the reloader looking for a self defense cartridge you could crank out by the thousand lot.
Push it along around 2900-3000 FPS and it would put bad guys down DRT.
If there’s some technical reason I sure wish someone would enlighten me.
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