It sort of makes the guys holding a clay target over a pattern 'void' look silly.
It is so hard not to make statements like this, because so often we think linearly and do not take all shot angles into consideration. That statement is probably true for crossers. But it absolutely is not true for straight incomers or going away birds! Shooting as much as I do, I see a lot of both of those, lots of incomers on a dove field, and a sporting clays course. Lots of going away quail, sporting targets and again, doves. A two dimensional hole in a pattern can very easily cause a miss on birds like these.
I once saw a Browning 2000 that came from the factory shooting the most perfect donut patterns you ever saw. I mean every time. We patterned it after the owner's hit percentage tanked after buying it. A slight honing of the choke by a gunsmith straightened it out. Don't tell me a hole in a pattern can't cause misses, "I done seen it happen".
SRH
