I consider 20 gauge buckshot hunting to be deer torturing, not deer huting. They are pretty effective with slugs though.

Any time you drive deer, whether with dogs or people, they will normally be running when you shoot them. If you are going to use that technique, you have to learn to shoot running deer. It is not only possible, thousands of people do it every year. I suggest you practice with moving targets. Start with a .22 shooting at moving targets like wooden disks the size of a pie plate. After you get pretty good at that, try hitting deer sized targets towed way behind a car. You will find that you can aim a rifle just like a shotgun and hit what you are aiming at. Finally, try it with your shotgun and slugs. You will see that you can hit a deer sized target pretty consistently out to 50 yards, maybe 80 yards. A slug is pretty lethal when you hit a deer, even though it is not as lethal as a rifle. The problem with buckshot, is that it can severly cripple deer without killing them and does quite often. There are other techniques that involve more still shots at deer if you aren't accomplished in hitting moving deer.

they use dogs here and we use bucksot i have no problem killing a running deer i got 3 deer the past season and all 3 were running 2 of them rolled em up right there the 3rd i shot and dropped her then turned to another to see if i could get a shot and she jumped ran 40 yards i shot again dropped her i like a 12 gauge myself as far as a 20 gauge i know kids 10-13 years old who kill deer on the run with 20 gauge since they run dogs in your area make it easy on yourself hunt the woods stay out of the field when a deer breaks the field it looks like there runnin 90 miles an hour belly inches from the ground a deer cant run as fast in the woods and alot of times you can catch them just slippin threw the woods not only that when your in the woods listen to the dogs alot of times when they pick up the first scent on that old buck and he jumps he will most likely circle around right back to where he was jumped hes trying to throw em off back on the old trail so take the time pattern the gun at many ranges with diffrent shells not just size but brand dont go with with one of those extra full chokes when deer comes by at 10-20 yards the pattern is so tight you better be dead on i have hunted with dogs since i started hunting not by choice but no choice its one of those you better learn real quick not just shooting but still being safe thats the biggest thing be safe

you gotta know when to hold em and when to fold em

Dearhound, Use a slug, if you have shot birds at all you should know about leading your target. Deer can be shot while running I have done it.

you may be "accurate" with buckshot, but there is no way that you can be as accurate as using slugs. Just by the odds of it you are more likely to wound a deer using buckshot then a slug. It is true that bad hits do happen, but the fact is: it is the hunters responsibility to minimize the possibilities for a bad hit. I'm always looking for precision within a few inches so there is no way that buckshot would ever be an ethical hunting load. Besides the fact that I cant use it because its illegal in NY.