If your shotgun shoots a good pattern with the load your shooting, then I say use it at the range you pattern it. #4 Buck I find works best for a chest shot.

If you you use buck shot i would say js twait till the deer is in range and aim for the chest. I head is a smaller target and harder to hit then the chest.

I do not like buckshot for anything. If you are shooting a shotgun use a slug!

The first few deer I harvested where with buckshot from a 20ga 870. Aim the same as if your where shooting slugs or a rifle. While some people may not like buckshot, there is a time and a place for it, such as thick brush. Also in Virginia there are certain counties where you can not use rifles, or slugs for that matter, so your only choice is to use buckshot. It is just as effective in taking down deer as a slug, the only drawback is the deer needs to be under 70 yards.

If I were going to hunt deer with Buckshot (not)I would use 00 or 000 and aim for the center of the chest. Limit your shots to 40 yds. Use slugs

Buckshot needs a name change. Coyoteshot. Pissedoffleopardshot. Burglarshot. Insurgentshot. Anything but buckshot.

Don't use buckshot on deer! Save it for things thst go "bump" in the night.

You can use buckshot on deer? I just keep it in the Mossberg in the bedroom.

Next you'll be talking about something really dumb, like #4 shot for birds, or something.

Buckshot can work well within its range with the right load and choke. If you need to use a smoothbore try federal truball slugs, they work well with just the front bead in my H&R Pardner. Plus they only cost 5 bucks a box! Which is relatively cheap compared to sabots and a rifled barrel. Hope this helps and Merry Christmas!