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.
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