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Old 03-29-2007 | 04:46 AM
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Default RE: Need input on Rem 870 shot patterns pic's

ORIGINAL: SwampCollie

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....
I always try to get boxes from Farmers furniture to pateren all the guns the guys bring to me.they will give you all the boxes that the refridgeraters com in. thats big enough to see all the pellet hits.as swampcollie said the POA is not always where your looking.
check that and different makes and size shot.then you will know just what that gun does.
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