Tight shooting Remington doubles

[J.B. Books]

Last year I acquired a Remington 1894 A grade 10ga ejector gun with 30" damascus barrels, it is choked .045 and .046 and threw 92+% and 93+% patterns at 40 yards using 1 1 1/8 ounce of magnum #6 pushed along with some 22 grains of Green Dot.

Tonight I put my Remington 1900 ejector 12ga to the same test. It has fluid steel 30" barrels choked .014 in the right and .024 in the left. I shot 1 1/8 ounce load of magnum #6 pushed along with 18.5 grains of Green Dot. I was surprised by the results.

The right barrel shot as expected, I viced the gun and put the bead on the orange circle at 40 yards and fired. The pattern was slightly high and I moved my circle and pellet count up an inch to compensate for it. The .014 of choke produced a pattern of 147/253 for 58%.

When I shot the left barrel I held the bead just below the orange circle and let fly. It resulted in a pattern of 223/253 or 88%. This is a tight shooting 12ga, given that it has only 24 thou of choke I was surprised.

The folks at Ilion sure knew how to make a tight shooting double gun when they were in the business of making them!