RE: My boy's pattern
Yup, I'd say that would turn his lights out.
This morning I helped call and video a friend's boy (he is 9 or 10). He shot his first tom.
He was using a 20 gauge mossberg with a 1 ounce load of #5's in a 2 3/4" shell. It was about a 20 yard shot and that bird never knew what hit him.