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Old 03-28-2007 | 04:49 PM
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Default RE: Need input on Rem 870 shot patterns pic's

We really can't tell you anything based on those pictures. You need to shoot at a bigger target. Turkey targets are at best, good for practice, but as far as truely being able to tell how your choke/load combo is going to shoot, you need to be shooting at least at a piece of posterboard. I got 20 piece at Target three weeks ago for $7.25. If you desire you can tape your turkey target to it and use it as a point of aim.

Reason for this is that you don't even know if its the true center of your pattern hitting the bird or not. You might be shooting a foot and a half to the right (and thats not an insult, I have two guns that don't shoot to POA, it happens), and at the dead center of your pattern you might have a dense enough spread to nearly clean a birds head off...but without a big enough piece of paper to capture that WHOLE PATTERN, you will never really know....
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