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10-31-2023, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Chuck Bishop
Your letter should have read 255 pellets in a 30" circle at 40 yards which is also the standard for a 12 ga. today. Your number of pellets in a 40" circle should be lower than a 30" circle at the same distance. I'm sending you a revised letter.
If I did the math correctly, Tatham had approximately 325 pellets in 1 1/8 oz. of size 7 shot so 255 / 325 = .788 % which is a full choke
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Chuck, you lost me here. Just making sure I don’t have an egregious misunderstanding of patterning. Shouldn’t the number of pellets in a 40” circle be higher than a 30” at the same distance?
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10-31-2023, 09:37 PM
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Chuck, you lost me here. Just making sure I don’t have an egregious misunderstanding of patterning. Shouldn’t the number of pellets in a 40” circle be higher than a 30” at the same distance?
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No Dylan, you are correct, I get confused in my old age. At least tell me I figured out the percentage correctly!
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