I was wondering if there were any gelatin tests of the Heavy-Shot Maximum Defense shotgun shell. Each shell contains 35 T (.20 diameter) Hevi-shot pellets at an advertised 1350 fps. If this load can penetrate 12" (or very close to it) I think it might be good choice for inside the home use where 00 buck may have a bit too much penetration (18" in gelatin)
I found a gelatin test done on the Hevi-shot Dead Coyote load which is the 3" mag version of this load.
Average penetration is bit shallow (10" or so), but with some pellets going 12".
I am starting to think that a Hevi-Shot version of #4 buck or better yet #1 would be ultimate balance of penetration, and wound trauma.
Steve, that’s quite interesting, unfortunately no gel pics. Would you be so kind and PM me or email me-it’s about your homemade bullets/mechanical engineering. If you don’t want to respond, let me know…I would like to know. Sorry to make this public.
-Dave