Originally Posted By: NickD90
Shooting a Winny SXP 26" pump ($350) with 2.75 00 buck. It cycles really fast with the auto-blow back feature (3 shots in about 1 second out of a pump, similar to a Benelli Nova). It takes some getting used to, but once you figure out the cadence of the pump, it works like normal.

So when I shot at the deer at 10 - 15 - 25 yards, it really was like shooting a single slug.



Given that scalded bucks get out of the starting blocks fast, 10-25 yards goes by in a snap. Shooting accurately always trumps shooting fast.

Originally Posted By: NickD90
I'm certain I shot high.


Just like looking at the rack on a lovely lass at first meeting rather than her eyes, focusing on the same of a sprinting buck rather than the boiler room when you trip the trigger will oft yield the same outcome.... wink

Originally Posted By: NickD90
I'm comfortable inside 75 yards.


What was that famous quote from Dirty Harry about limitations? I care not how fast projectiles leave the muzzle. I do care about how they retain same at POI. 00 buck has the G1 ballistic coefficient of a beach ball. It sheds significant velocity and energy such that each pellet packs about the same oomph as a .22 RF at fifty paces. Ya, there's 9 of them packed tight out of your particular tube but as I said in my previous post, they have terrible terminal performance to reliably crush CPS/CNS systems compared to a slug at that distance and beyond.

Watched a doe snuggle with a handsome fork horn at first light. I didn't intrude. Hope you find his big brother....