ORIGINAL: MO-KS_hunter
ORIGINAL: Adrian J Hare
OK I'll play too but are we involving the these hunters that use the Ol Sugar Shot ? because everyone knows they can't be beat [8D]
Now I have to ask this - The photo above (Great pattern by the way) but I see you have circled a 10 in and it is off the head of the turkey as you can see through the paper right ? Not being smart here, maybe stupid but why are you counting something that is not on the place that the pattern is suppost to be ? I've never counted a cluster of shot on any target.
Adrian I agree 100%, the only thing that counts are the pellets that hit the turkey's head. But with that particular shot (happened to be the time I shot my hevi-shot #6), I'm pretty sure I pulled the shot to the right. I confirmed this by setting up another target at 40 yards and used a cheaper winchester double-X magnum to verify that the center of pattern is indeed where I'm aiming.
Not to be a contarian, but you might wish to recheck the POI with the original shell. When working up my gun it was clearly evident that center of the pattern with different loadswere different, some of them significantly different. The cheap shells shot with my gun shot nowhere near where the Nitros did.