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Old 01-14-2008 | 04:01 PM
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Default RE: Win. Extended range question

Well, I've got good news and bad news. First, the goodnews: I shot them yesterday with a Jelly Head .660 and I can say that the results were very good.

I was as exact as I could be with these loads. I cut one open and counted the pellets and I counted roughly 380 pellets of #6 shot. This was after the fact that I had shot earlier in the day. It was windier than I like it to be when I'm patterning so I opted to shoot at 30 yards instead of the usual 40. The target I was using was one of the Champion XRAY Targets. It's gridded into 1" squares. It is 18" wide and 17" tall. Of the 380 or so pellets that is in one of these shells, 330 of them were counted in the paper after the shot, with most of them being solidly inside the target with very few "fliers" on the perimeter of the target.

Of the 330 pellets that were in the target, roughly 100 were in the picture of the turkey itself. I also looked for the most concentrated area of pellets and drew a 10" circle around it and counted 190 pellets inside of that 10" circle. That's the good news.

Now the bad news: They don't make them anymore and my shop doesn't have any more![:@]Doesn't it always end up like this?!?! Anyway, I just sent my order in for a box of4x5x7 Nitros, so take that Winchester!

Oh yeah, here's the picture: http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=turkeytargetwinchesterxml9.jpg
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