Anyone ever been hit by a stray pellet on the skeet field?
Ricochets happen.
I think that patterning the spreader loads at a steadily increasing set of distances is a great idea.
One of my labs had pellets in her back.
I attributed them to having been somewhere under or at least near enough to a flushing pheasant to have been raked or ricocheted.
So Without exactingly identifying the how, I am sure that shooting over a flushing dog can put pellets in them. I suppose that if a spreader was working as designed, there would be a choke construction or two increase in pattern width at distance, So some net increase in the chance of a nearby dog getting fringed. Or hit by a ricochet.
I don’t think that is evidence of a “golden bb” when it works for you, or of a “black pearl” when it works against you.
Plenty of things can alter or re direct the trajectory of a deformed pellet, an arrow, or a rocket ship for that matter.
Re-reading Stan’s question more carefully, I know of no one ever shooting spreaders into a huge cardboard or steel screen for the purpose of looking for extreme flyers.
Last edited by ClapperZapper; 03/01/19 03:08 PM.
