Of course you can break a clay target at or beyond 40 yards using a cylinder choked gun and 7-1/2 shot. IF you hit it with 3 or more pellets! If you could do that RELIABLY, most trap shooters would be using cylinder bored guns. I'd be surprised to learn that MMCI uses a lot of cylinder bored guns for medium to longer range shots. I find it easier to believe he is just puffing a bit of gun-writers' smoke at the readers. I'm quite sure he is not that stupid, but I could always be wrong.

> Jim Legg <