Wonderful Stan and thank you!
The cover of the Super Fox booklet shows a pattern of 59% in a 30 circle at 60 yards with No. 4 shot using Western 3 Record Super X shells.
Hunter Arms' The Wonder Gun booklet claimed full choke patterns in a 30 circle using a 3 shell and No. 4 shot (188 pellets) of 92% at 40 yards, 45.2% at 60 yards, and 29.2% at 70 yards.
I would suggest 3-5 shots at 60 and 80 yards.
Mark's point is important. I believe Mike Campbell spoke with Tom Armbrust about pressure/speed testing some vintage loads he had. Tom had already attempted to do so, and found the results quite inconsistent; he thought related to primer rather than powder deterioration. Some shells had increased pressure secondary to hardening/stiffening of the wads and paper cases.
We all understand that a few shots from one gun and one load does not a statistically significant study make, but the results should be interesting. I suspect pattern distribution will be a problem with lots of duck size holes.
Last edited by Drew Hause; 05/05/12 10:42 AM.
