You can't have too much data. The old line of "patterns are all that matter" falls short when buying and selling. If there is little choke, and the gun throws a tight pattern with someone else's pet skeet load, it may or may not be acceptably tight for a hunting load.
CHOKE MATTERS.
I can work with metal that is there. If it isn't there, you are limited in what can be done to tighten patterns. How many of you would buy a gun for pass shooting geese that wasn't tightly choked, but the owner said "my pet load is incredible in this gun for geese at great distances"?
Like Stan, I want to know what I have and what I'm buying.
The line about patterning and not worrying about choke has been parroted so many times, people have lost touch with reality. There actually is a direct correlation between choke and pattern with a given load.
