RE: Question about Patternmaster choke???
20 yards is too close for the extended range choke. I have a real hard time killing ducks stone dead with steel shot. Before I switched to the extended range I knocked a lot of birds down but also had alot of cripples which meant additional shots to finish off the birds. I ended up loosing a lot of birds after I knocked them down because they would end up diving on me and coming up somewhere on the bank and going up in some brush where I couldn't see them. Since switching to the extended range I seem to hit the birds more solidly and don't spend as much time chasing cripples. My average shot is about 30 to 40 yards. You may have to get down on your gun a little bit more shooting a tighter choke but I have shot birds up close and sometime you do hit them pretty hard but you don't loose the birds.