I usually carry a few spreaders in my bag for those pesky close range rabbits. Lately the Parker of choice has been a 34" DHE choked .040 and .040. Figured I would see what sort of pattern enhancement I was getting with a spreader load so off to the patterning board with the aforementioned Parker.
Distance- 23 yards
First up my go to 1 oz Fiocchi #8 at 1200 FPS for comparison. Yikes, that's tight!
Next up the Poly Wad Spreader- Federal GM hull, 1 1/8 oz #8, 18.9 grs American Select, Fed 209, CB 4118 wad, 1160 FPS.
Next up the BP X-Stream Spreader-Same load as above.
The board is 30", while I did not measure the Fiocchi pattern I would say it is about 15" or half the board roughly. The Poly Wad stretches the pattern to just about the full 30" while the X-Stream remains a little tighter. Either one affords a little more room for error on tight targets but I like that Poly Wad personally.
My wife thinks I should find something more productive to do with my time now that I have retired. She's right so I started shooting my rifles more
