"Regarding my riducule for stating that a long slow barrel taper increased pattern effectiveness, one must go no further than the makers of MODERN screw-in chokes to read their statements on shot deformation, and regulating choke to bore diameter."
I can only refer you to my first post. I have never seen ANY substantiated data to support ANY barrel mods or chokes that purport improvement. Any and all just ooze snake oil by the gallon.
Again - if any of that crap actually worked to do anything but lighten wallets then the factories would be on it like stink on shit. Right now we're looking at over a hundred year's worth of tinkering and the bbls still look pretty much like what Greener cobbled together in the late 19th Century. I wonder why? Well, actually I don't.
It's a shotgun.
Get over it.
+1...finally someone on here with a brain....