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

by Jason Wimbiscus

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.

American Revolutionary War
Buck and Ball
Centurion
civil war
defense rounds
flintlock muskets
Handloading
handloads
Reloading
Self Defense
Shotgun
shotshells
Winchester PDX1

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