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I'd try to find a light bismuth load that holds tight, and shoot ducks with it. This. ^^^^^ Or......... do y'all have turkeys to hunt?
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Sidelock
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Try patterning at distance close to the clays you shoot, 25-30 yards, but at first glance it appears your gun is full choke. While top shooters use tighter chokes most of us would be better off with imp cyl.
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Hello All,
Great comments! LOL!
Many Trouts, do bear in mind that that is the open barrel. ;-)
As accurately said with respect to the position of the pattern, my fault, not the gun's. Did not aim properly.
No bismuth available down here (and probably too expensive for me anyway ;-)].
No turkeys either.
I do hit clays with it and they are literally pulverized. It would be great for puréed quail!
Going shooting tomorrow. Will share some more pattern pictures from 30yds (tight barrel included).
Best,
JC
"...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance." Charles Darwin
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That patterning sheet shows the kind of pellet pattern density that Hemingway mentioned in "True At First Light' when he removed the SSG buckshot shells from his 12 gauge full choke M12 and reloaded with No. 8 shot, and crawled into a mangrove tangle to find and dispatch a wounded leopard. RWTF
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