HRNDY AG 12GA 2.75″ 00 10/100

Description

Hornady’s American Gunner buckshot is built for the shooter who wants a viable defensive or duty load that stays controllable under fast, repeated fire. The reduced-recoil design is the central engineering decision here: by lowering chamber pressure and managing the powder burn rate, Hornady brings felt recoil down to a level that allows quicker target reacquisition between shots without sacrificing the terminal performance that makes 00 buck useful in the first place. That’s a meaningful trade-off, and it’s not free — reduced-recoil loads do give up some velocity compared to full-power buckshot, which matters if you’re comparing wound ballistic data at distance. For defensive ranges, the difference is rarely consequential.

The load carries eight pellets of 00 buck, which is one fewer than the traditional nine-pellet 00 count found in standard 2¾-inch loads. Hornady made that choice deliberately: tightening the pellet count lets them maintain a consistent, manageable payload while keeping the shot weight and wad geometry compatible with the reduced-recoil velocity envelope. Each pellet is hard lead, and at 1,350 feet per second muzzle velocity the pattern stays dense enough at typical interior distances to matter. The 2¾-inch shell is the universal format, feeding reliably through fixed and detachable magazine-fed shotguns alike. Boxes come in ten rounds, with cases of one hundred for those who want to train with the same load they carry.