Short 10 pattern photos
 

Shot a round of clays with the Parker 10 yesterday. Two shots at the pattern plate before we started. Not a careful test, 20 paces back, and was short of white paint. Picture is worth looking at anyhow.

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You can see the right full choked barrel is very tight at close range using 1 ¼ oz 7 ½ and 27.5 Green Dot. It’s almost a rifle pattern. Appx 12 inches all the shot. Left barrel is little more open than the right , still a full choke, very reasonable pattern for close targets with 1 1/8 oz 20 gr Red dot and a Polywad 12 G Spreader disk roll crimped. most of the shot was in about 25 inches. Double the no disk pattern. Little space left around the spreader insert in the 10 hull is covered up when you roll the hull.





On the course the regular no spreader insert shells crush clay targets, O/U shooters with me were set back by how it breaks. I don’t need that much shot to break a clay target and could use a recoil reduction, will drop to 1 1/8 oz next loading. Spreader works very well. Going to load some more and pattern again longer distance, need to see were the spreader load runs out of gas. My 12 G Parkers don’t use the spreaders over 20 or so yards. Shot load the 10 has may be able to stretch that distance.

William Davis

I may have flipped the photos. Actual poi is slightly left of poa which I would expect using a strap on cheek piece to raise the comb a little bit. Raises and throws off to one side same time. Not enough to matter to me.

Will

try putting you filler wad on top of your shot ,than crimp.
i found that opened the pattern really well.
scott

I probably should pattern some with birdshot but rarely if ever do I . Buckshot on the other hand I enjoy shooting patterns but I generally do that from the bench and on a paper target.

Craig

I ought to be more methodical patterning, limit myself to putting a few on the plate when I pass it. Going to back up to about 30 yards and do the same thing next time. And bring plenty of white paint !

William

If you wish to open it up I think BPI will sell you some spreader thingies to go inside the shotcup .

I don't think those patterns should be opened up at all. Remember, they were shot at about 20 yards. The majority of Parkers were patterned at 40 yards in a 30" circle or thirty yards in a 24" circle. My guess is that the patterns produced by that gun might almost be too open at 40 yards.

It is hard to know how that gun and load compares to others as the industry standard measure is the % of pellets in a 30" circle at 40 yards. I have a 10ga Remington 1894 that shot 92/93% with 1 1/8 #6. When I took the same load and added an X Stream spreader insert the pattern opened up to 58% if I recall correctly. It would be interesting to see what your gun and loads are doing at 40 yards.

My EH is M and IM and it crushes targets on the skeet field . Of the ones I missed it wasn't because of the tight chokes but rather the idiot shooting the gun stopping his swing :rotf:

Dean no doubt the gun was built for 40 yards and longer. I only use spreaders for close clay targets. We have one clays course nearby that throws all short targets, even if long they curl making short shot the best one. Hot shot modern gun shooters use skeet chokes at that place.

I avoid it preferring courses with long targets, however when you have a 20 yard bird, and choked tight, spreader is a good thing to have .

William