Reading TPS suggests that Chuck is correct and they did not count pellets, but rather bored to a choke percentage and verified at the patterning plate.
I'm sure sorry that we don't have all of the records, but I'm also very grateful for the work done by those who copied and produced what we have. It must have been a tremendous task.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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