Charlie is exactly right, to really know what the old patterning numbers mean you'd have to know the brand of the shot. A Tathum's #7 might be quite a bit different from a Chicago #7 and so on. I've seen that same pellet count chart he mentions but I don't have a copy of it unfortunately.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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