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Wad Wizard SWAT12® Results

Do you need the ultimate in tactical shotgun performance? Then the Wad Wizard SWAT12™ tube (Supreme Wide Area Tube) is our answer to your need. This tube is designed to produce wider yet, evenly-distributed buckshot patterns at 25 yards and beyond. For tighter patterns use the Supreme tube with recommended ammunition. Provides excellent performance with standard Foster slugs. (Not recommended for use with solid or sabot-type slugs.) May also be used with bag and breaching rounds.

Wad Wizard SWAT12

00 Hevishot @ 25 Yards

Wad Wizard SWAT12

00 Hevishot @ 25 Yards

Wad Wizard SWAT12 Walk-Up

Federal 00 Buckshot. 25 Yards, 15 Yards, 7 1/2 Yards

Wad Wizard SWAT12 @ 25 Yards

Fiocchi 00 High Velocity

Wad Wizard SWAT12 Federal 00 Buckshot

15 and 7 1/2 Yards

The above silhouettes were all fired with the Wad Wizard SWAT12™ tube installed in a standard Mossberg 500 "squad gun" barrel that has been cut, drilled & tapped for thin-walled tubes, tube installed, bead sight installed, bore burnished and barrel finished.

Wad Wizard Power20™ SWAT Results

These are typical "hard-hitting, low recoil" tactical patterns shot with the Wad Wizard Power20™ SWAT tube in Remington, Beretta / Benelli and Browning Inv. Plus and other shotguns. For tighter patterns, use the Power20™ long-range tube!

Wad Wizard Power20 Shells

Pictured with the Wad Wizard Power20 and the new Wad Wizard Power20 SWAT tube

Wad Wizard Power20 SWAT

Installed on youth model Remington 870 20 gauge. Target is 25 yards with Wad Wizard Power20 shell. 100% pattern (18 pellets) on-target

Compare 870 Remington IC Slug Barrel

2 3/4" Federal Factory load # 3 buck. (9 of 20 on-target, but where did the other 11 go?)

Wad Wizard Power20 SWAT @ 7 1/2 & 15 Yards

Wad Wizard Power20 18 Pellet # 4 buckshot load.

Wad Wizard Power20 SWAT @ 30 Yards w/ Slugs

Standard bead sight and flyer to the left called.

Q. How can the 20 gauge be an effective tactical combat weapon for police, military & home defense?

A. A shotgun's power comes from the fact that it delivers a number of separate hits on target simultaneously. Its actual striking energy is exponentially greater than the sum-total of the combined striking energy of on-target pellets. In other words, as shown by the charts below, striking power depends on the number of pellets that actually hit the target. 12 gauge muzzle energy is greater than 20 gauge muzzle energy. However, the 20 gauge muzzle energy is rather awesome, regardless. Too, the playing field between the gauges becomes more even as the range increases if you are using a Wad Wizard Power20 tube and the Power20 brand of buckshot shells. When all of the # 4 buckshot from a Wad Wizard Power20 tube hit at 25 yards, and only a third of the 00 pellets from a 12 gauge do so at that range, then you will see from the charts below why the 20 gauge is an ideal tactical weapon.

Q. How much recoil does a Wad Wizard Power20 buckshot load have compared to a 12 gauge and other standard arms & loadings?

A. As you can see by the chart below, in light-weight 20 gauge guns recoil is substantially reduced, below the recoil produced by low velocity 12 gauge loads, to levels easily manageable by smaller-statured individuals.

Q.    Is there any such thing as 20-gauge shot shells in 00 buck? I'm curious about the use of such in a 20-gauge pump.

A.    While it is indeed possible to load 00 buck into a 2 3/4" or 3" 20 gauge shotgun shell with the proper components, it is not an efficient way to deliver maximum killing energy to the target for this gauge, and it just isn't worth the trouble. This is because 20 gauge has a bore of about .615", 00 Buckshot is about .33" in diameter, so they will not "stack" evenly into "tiers" in the shell and in a shot cup (and therefore don't pattern well), and you can't fit enough 00 into the shell to make for an effective load. Most factory 20 gauge buckshot shells are loaded with either #2 (about .27") or #3 buckshot (about .25").

     While 00 is an awesome and deadly shot size in a 10 or 12 gauge, don't sell the smaller sizes of buckshot "short". They, too are very awesome in performance and killing power. In our company's low-recoiling Power 20 loads, we use 18 (7/8 oz) #4 (that's .24" in diameter) nickel-plated buckshot, most all of which will consistently hit in the kill zone-black of a silhouette target at 25 yards when used with our Wad Wizard tubes.

    Our Wad Wizard 20 gauge buckshot shells with #4 buckshot actually deliver more killing power on target than most shotguns with conventional 12 gauge #00 buckshot loads, because most (if not 100%) of the #4 buck pellets will hit the target with our loads and tubes. The up to 18 simultaneous multiple hits with these big lead #4 buckshot balls deliver a combined effect greater than the sum total of each #4 buckshot pellet's individual energy; and, our 20's can deliver greater energy on a target than does a load of #00 buckshot out of a 12 gauge which misses the target with most of its load's pellets.