Patterning 00 Buckshot part 2 - Non Buffered vs Buffered With Shot Cup Wad vs FLITECONTROL 

Great results and awesome video man!

Great video Buffalo! As a HUGE shotgun fan I love these type videos. Federal Flite Control is what we use on duty here in CA and it’s such an impressive shell it’s what I use in my HD shotguns. Be safe out there! -OG, the Taufledermaus Channel.

Great video. I never really realized how much of a difference just having the buffer in the shell made. Thanks for the upload man. *:D*

I like the way you provide and present your information in video, seem humble and kind and intellectual. Best way to teach people and get em to listen is how you are teaching! Awesome videos man.

I knew that it would make a difference in the patterns but I would not have dreamed the difference would be that dramatic. Great video brother :-)

Great test!

*Thank you for the real wourld demo of typical buckshot loads in a typical budget grade shotgun.*

It's like you read our minds regarding the most frequent and unanswered questions. Thank you for the straightforward info.

Thanks for the video! I'm new to shotguns, and picked up a mossberg 940 jm pro for home defense. This video answers a lot of questions I had, not knowing much about terminology.

Good job here, clear and concise without a bunch of buffering!

Thanks for the video Buffalo! I would normally use slugs for home defense, but I have to worry about over penetration so Buckshot it is. It was a great help for you to show us the differences between brand names, shot size, and pattern......cause those three things can change quite a bit.

That flight control is hard to beat. All that energy stays together where it should.

Those are awesome results! Great Test and Info! I used to handload 8 pellets of #4 buck and 3/4oz of #4 copper plated shot. Killer home defense rounds. Great coyote round when they come running into small food plots at night

Great video! I've always told people to pattern test their shotgun. You never know what it's giving you until you pattern test it. Keep up the great videos sir!

The flitecontrol really tightened the group

Another good video. I really enjoy my Maverick 88 and probably enjoy it more than my Mossbergs. I'm just a huge fan of shotguns and lever action rifles. I always look for those types of videos. Thanks for the info about the shot patterns. Real informative!

Outstanding!! ... Not only the demo, but the supplemental thoughts afterward. Way to shoot for the middle of the audience. New Subscriber here.

Good info. ❤️ I wanted to know what might be the difference inside a house at 5 feet, 10, 15 and 20 feet. I think you pretty much answered it. The banjo music is like whip creme on my pumpkin pie.

Clear and to the point. Liked and subscribed

That Rio looked and sounded like it was loaded hotter than the other two... 💥🔫🤠Yeehaw

Good advice. Another excellent presentation. We learned valuable info. Thank you.

Nice shooting and good info Buffalo.Thanks for the video.

Excellent video as always Buffalo!!! Thanks for all that you do!!👍✊🇺🇸🇺🇸

GREAT Video, easy going, understood every word you said, and excellent information, I learned a lot. Thank You Very Much

THX FOR A GREAT DEMONSTRATION AND LESSON !

Another good video brother Buffalo! Thanks!

Cool video brother. Always love these patterning comparisons.

Your first video you used the Law Enforcement packaged Flite Control loads . The Personal Defense packaged loads are the same loads , with different packaging for marketing .

As always Buffalo a Great video! Informative and very good visual information that you can understand without a bunch of BS. Thanks for sharing! ;-)

Thanks, it was very informative.

Another great quality video👍 You do good work. Nice presentation of the three!

Thanks Buffalo good info.

Thank You for the demonstration.

Excellent video

Some interesting things I've learned from handloading buckshot in 12 and 16 Gauge: My loads, which are taken directly from the Lyman manual and use standard one-piece plastic wads with petals, have surprisingly tight patterns which are fairly comparable to Flite Control. This is unintentional, it simply occurs naturally. Factory buffered loads have even and well distributed patterns, but notably wider. Unbuffered factory loads with only a shot cup have much more randomly distributed patterns. Sometimes they string vertically, sometimes horizontally, sometimes a group of pellets will clump together, with an occasional pellet flying very wide of the rest of the pattern. I don't know exactly what it means, but the results of all the different loads are very consistent regardless of gun or barrel length, with barrels ranging from 7 1/2" up to 28". Choke seems to have little to no effect on buckshot in general. I do not know what adding buffer would do. The manual specifically and strongly warns that buffer should not ever be added to any load which doesn't list it in the components.

Great video, sir. You do good work.

Thank you Sir for your interesting and Informative Videos...Blessings

A very informative video, great job!

Good job, always enjoy your stuff.

Wow! That flight control is legit. Not just a gimmick.

Great video! Subscribed

great video taught me something

Keep up the great work

Like It Buffalo Thanks!

Another great shotgun video, thanks!

Glad to know the Flight Control stuff isn't just smoke without fire. I think I would stick with nonbuffered buck for most applications unless I really needed to get a buck at the foot at twenty yards. Even so, inside a house, you have something of a rifle when using a shotgun. Thanks so much for the shoutout. Maybe, you will find out how much the 410 slug will penetrate, given how much I love that little round.

Your channel is growing! In just a year, you've gained over 10,000 subscribers. That's awesome!

Well done

Very informative...

Thanks. Found my round for my IWI TS12. Federal Premium 12ga FlightControl Personal Defense 9 Pellots.

Hmmmm....Very good info. Something to think about....Thanks Buffalo!!

pretty interesting testing as I did not know so thanks for opening my eyes....Good stuff...

I have a huge surplus of dud 20ga #3 buck shells that were given to me (55gal drum full). I handload a 12ga 3 1/4 dram 22 pellet #3 and get 12" groups at 40yds with a standard birdshot wad 18" cylinder bore which is quite impressive. If only federal sold those shot cups separate i could really throw them out there.

great, nice information

Now that Federal Premium "Personal Defense" did a Very Good Job at keeping it tight. I Just may have to try these out👍 Thank's for your video's Mr. Buffalo😉

I'm going to be the fly in the ointment here & point out that was not just no buffer in the first shell, there was also no wad of any kind, while the other 2 each had a wad, could that have also altered the spread of the buckshot? Thank you for the interesting video.

Nice to know that.

Very interesting

Educational video - especially when you “haft” it!

I like it. Thanks.

Nice demo.

Great testing sir! And i would assume tighter patterns at closer distances which I'm talking mostly "wrong house m-fckr" scenario here. I bought a bunch of the rio stuff on sale cheap a while back as extra supply but never looked at the performances until now and gotta say will work just fine for "unwanted " guests i have watched quite a few of your videos lately and now a subscriber! You seem like my kinda people's thank you for the test and will look forward to future ones

Good stuff bro!

Lmao, the Rio looked like it about kicked the shotgun out of your hands.

your great i like you, not in any kind of weird way. I think you make a good video, have a nice personality, and do systematic comparison.

Great info...the copper coated would be a great hog load....Good pattern...

That I very interesting!

I saw your video on regular buck and choke tubes and enjoyed it a lot. I wonder how the buffered shot would do in the same test

Nice video I like your channel alot, the ammunition comparison videos are my favorite. this isn't a complaint but id recomend doing 3 tests per ammo type, for example shoot 3 targets with each ammo type to see the shot pattern and average them Incase there's any inconsistencies

I'm pretty sure most of the observable difference was in the shot cup, rather than the buffer. Buffer helps, but its effect is much slighter than shotcup design and pellet hardness.

Well that is a no brainier. If I was deer hunting I'd want the last load. For home defense I'd take the first one. If I could only choose one I'd take the middle. 😁👍🇺🇸

That Federal flight control hit de-fence. 😁

8 pellet Hornady Critical Defense hold a crazy tight pattern even out of 18.5 smooth bore

I am having trouble with patern with federal blue box in full choke. Does the buffer ammo not like full choke?

I've heard about the 88 Magnum. Way better than the 44 magnum. I have a 22 magnum and I like it.

interesting video i didnt expect that big of a difference not halfs anyways.

Thank you for you're time.

I definitely would not want to be on the receiving end of any of those, but dam that Federal flight controle would leave a golf ball sized home invasion ending world of hurt smackdown on anyone stipid enough to need some terminal persuasion 😲🤔👍🇦🇺. Nice video as usually, thanks Buffalo 👍..

Love the video and comparisons. Could you do the same with #4 Buck?

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Great video like always. What hurt your hand on that first shot?

The buckshots of the video, all have 00bk size. But do you think 000bk have better pattern versus 00bk, because larger pellets?

The wad probably made a much larger difference than the buffer

maybe i missed it but what are the advertised FPS for each of these?

I like to ask u something I got a maverick 88 12ga with the 24in slug barrel n I have not yet shot it I have slugs but I like to know if I can shot 00 buckshot in it to n some bird shot

I know this is an old video, but do you remember where you picked up those targets? Were they picked up locally or did you get em online? I like the perforated areas.

A SLUG keeps it all nice and neat..

I had no idea the buffer made that much difference.

I've been wanting to do this myself. My bedside shotgun is loaded in 00buck and I was wondering about all the claims about the different types and how they actually patterned. You just saved me a few bucks to find out. Thanks. I watched this last night, and today, I was given 27 rounds of the Federal Premium Flightcontrol Wad, 00buck Tactical @ 1325 FPS. What were those personal defense rounds that you shot rated at for speed? I feel blessed today! 😁. 🇺🇸😎

Hey Buffalo, what do you think about that Hatfield sas 12 ga?

How many chokes are installed in the barrel?

Hey could you give a link to the Mk3 smle Channel, I can't find it buried beneath all the videos related to the gun and not the channel.

The flight controls blow the pattern on my full choke browning. It spreads like a sawed off. :-)

Never really got why Federal thinks their flitecontrol wad is so cool, indoors it seems pretty useless, and outdoors I can do better with a hog choke and 000 buck. For the house the 3” super X gives a real nice 15 pellet pattern at 10 yards or less. Great job buffalo!! (hoping to test some rem 8 pellet 000 buck soon, it was killing it at 50 yards from an IC out of my Mossy).

Federal has come a long way in my opinion over the last decade or so with their buckshot. I was always a Winchester buckshot man but not anymore...

Nice vid. I always wanted to know what the difference was. I live in a concrete jungle in the west coast (cough cough) Dont really need a shotgun or really have the a good place to practice. I do have a question for ya..If you could have only one all around shotgun for home defense and little hunting what would you choose and what gauge? I just want your opinion. No right or wrong just a honest opinion for a city slicker who dont know much about shotguns.. Thanks and keep up the great work!

do this same test with say a 28" mod. choke..thx!..:)

Awesome video... want some standard non buffered 00 buck for the house. They are harder to get than buffered it seems.

How alfar were you from all targets?

That flight control keeps them in such a tight pattern, why not just use a low-recoil slug at that point?