My friends and I put 100 more rounds through my Meriden today including the two rounds I fired for pattern. I wasn't concerned about pellet count, rather point of impact. I am visiting the Rio Grande Valley right now and we had a very windy day and thus not the best for shooting. I had intended to step back 40 yards...but found wind a factor and that my orange dot was hard to see, so I stepped up a bit and these patterns were actually fired at closer to 30-35 yards. The right barrel appears to have a more open choke than the left (a good thing in my book) which explains why I was shooting trap a bit better last weekend using the more open choke; and the shotgun appears to be hitting more or less where I point it (a very good thing).
After watching me have so much fun shooting a couple of boxes of shells through the old gun at hand thrown clays, two of my friends decided they were willing to take a chance on the Meriden and together we fired another 50 rounds.
I must comment on and thank everyone for all the great information everyone has provided in response to my questions. I hope others are finding this as valuable as have I. Most of all, thanks for posting photos of your prized damascus shooters. What a great collection of guns and owners!
I wish I could post some neat photographs of game taken with my damascus. A broken clay isn't very impressive (and very hard to photograph), but below are the patterns I shot today.
Doug
