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Jerry,

When you wound a bird do you honestly know why you wounded him? What went wrong? The discussion I started was about using low pressure shells in a vintage gun and maintaining velocity of the pellets out to 40 yards for a proper kill, not about using cannons. Other people have expressed an opinion in other places that the low pressure loads contributed to their wounding of a bird. I don't even know that their thoughts can be proven wrong without seeing velocity data at the distance they were shooting.

I am mainly just trying to be properly prepared so that I can continue to be a responsible hunter. I wish I could find some 4's or copper plated 5's to run down the other tube of this old gun. I don't know what the pattern would look like at 40 yards, and probably won't unless someone knows of a source for 2-1/2" 16ga shells in that shot size. I do not see them offered by RST or Polywad. If I can't find an alternative to test then I guess I will be using the #6 copper shot.