He cradled a 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun (no sights) loaded with copper slugs, and planned to shoot the first buck he saw, no matter how big. “I didn’t sit there long, and at 3:30 p.m. I saw a deer with ...

And shotgun slugs will also travel about as far as many handgun bullets. There’s buckshot, or large round balls, usually around .32 caliber each. A 12-gauge 00 buckshot shell contains 8 or 9 of those.