I've spent a hundred bucks or more to pattern my gun. For me it's almost a hobby. I've tried about every shell and I'm on my second choke. I shoot a Rem. 870 w/ 3" shells. Started with the Rem. Turkey chokc and I could get 6-8 in the brain/neck vertabre out to about 35 yards with Win XX Supreme 2ox. #5's. That was the best of all the loads. This year I bought a HS Undertaker and now all my loads will shoot that many pellets to 40 yards. The Hevi-shot just doesn't impress me much if you ever actually look at it. The pellets are not uniform shape or size and most of the pellets are actually smaller than the claimed size so I think that is part of how they achive better patterns. Not worth the money in my book.

I even tried the new Federal Mag Shock with Flight Control wad this spring but they didn't do any better than any other load. I'm sticking with the Win XX 2oz load for now (got my bird last week with them at around 20 yards). It's nice to be able to shoot out to 40 yards but most of the time you won't need to.