Ballistic products BW20 brush wad

[Double Lab]

In the early 80's I wrote a letter to Tom Roster (remember those) asking him for advice on how to open a pattern on a Parker F/F without reaming the chokes. He suggested just cutting the petals off the wad to allow the pellets to scrub the bore and deform them enough to open the pattern. I still have the letter but have quit obsessing about chokes although I will say that it did open the pattern 10-15% but only really worked with 8's or 9's. For me spreader loads are not worth the effort.

[Harold Pickens]

Yeah, I dont ever shoot spreaders thru my 20"s, cause most are already open choked, except for the PH. Brett Hoops was working on opening up the pattern on a F/F 20 for the grouse woods and had some nice patterns with his spreaders. I remembered i had this bag of brush wads that I had never tried.
I am going to take my PH 20 pheasant hunting this year.

[Double Lab]

This is my experience with full choked guns and will not suite everyone. If your gun is tightly choked and you are worried about "blowing the bird up" just go to the lightest shot charge you can find and I'm talking 5/8-3/4oz. in the three most popular upland gauges; 20, 16 and 12. Keep the speed in the 1160- 1250fps and you would be surprised at the success you will have.