Thanks, Miller . . . I got that he wasn't talking about gun balance. You still don't get that he's not talking about balanced TO EACH OTHER--as you stated in your previous post. Nor, once again, does it have anything at all to do with "mathematical balance". Take off your math cap and, if possible, put on your shooter cap. What the man is saying is that the standard 3/4 oz load performs very well in the 28ga, as does the 1 1/4 oz pigeon load in the 12ga. He's talking about results on PATTERN paper (and on targets, and on birds), not on MATH paper.
Read the sentence immediately preceding the one you quoted, and it should remove all doubt (if you can lose the calculator for long enough). Referring to "two mysteries in shotgun ammunition" that a Remington employee cannot fully explain: "One is why the 28 gauge is so highly efficient for the shot load it throws and the other is why the 12-gauge pigeon load of 3 1/4 drams of powder and 1 1/4 ounces of shot will pattern beautifully in almost any barrel." There you have his meaning: not balanced with each other, not balanced mathematically by the ratio of the bore size to the length of the shot column. It's all about performance . . . which, after all, is really the bottom line for most shooters.
Jim, I think Brister's book backs up opinion with a good bit more experimentation (and experience) than do many gun books. Some other writers . . . I think they try to look sharp with their words and their mathematical computations to compensate for their lack of capability with a shotgun.
Last edited by L. Brown; 01/19/11 04:15 PM.
