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How to handload reduced length 12 gauge shotshells (and why)

Besides satisfying a curiosity about how these rounds will pattern, there are essentially three practical reasons for loading reduced length shells.

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Buck and ball: An age old military tactic meets modern self-defense loads

In the days when smoothbore, flintlock muskets were all the rage, crafty soldiers would slip in a few pellets of buckshot to increase the hit potential when firing less than accurate weapons.

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