Chuck: Who reloads for your animated icon? It's not that old guy I shoot with Thursdays is it?
Stan: "The Collected Works of Miller" would sell well. A very practical guy who knows his stuff.
Miller: We appear to disagree. Which is unusual.
Greener: Most perfect patterns I ever saw. Rocketman would likely say they are too good to be true.
Skeetx: I read your edit and quote of the Polychoke guy. The full choke patterns from a (very) long and rough barrel makes perfect sense.
1. The length means the shot is no longer under acceleration by pressure behind the wad.
2. The roughness slows down the pellets in contact with the bore, elongating the shot charge. Same result as a choked barrel, different method.
G. T. Garwood: If you're an engineeer, show me your train.
A small post script. I'm currently using an ultralight load in an old Parker damascus barrel set. This is a 28" skeet choked barrel (about .003).
The load is 12.9 grains of AA Lite behind 7/8 oz. This is a very fast powder, and a very low charge weight. It chronographs 980 fps.
If there ever was a load that would provide acceleration only to a point short of the muzzle and should exhibit tightening of the pattern from the effects we've been discussing here, this should be it.
Alas, it still throws a skeet pattern.
