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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland
today i patterned the full choke barrel of the lc smith... a 28 inch cardboard circle was used as pattern board at 40 yards..a federal field load low brass shell was used a 1 1/8 ounce of 7 1/2 was used.i cut open a federal shell and counted the pellets there was 342 pellet count..after i shot the target i counted the no of hits they was 314 hits in circle.. i used a calculator and did the divideing thing and came up with 91.5 percent of the load was in circle.. pretty good pattern... not as good as petes old 10 ga remington but close... charlie
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Charlie, I hope it's a real tight shooting gun for you but I am confused by two things. First the standard for shotgun patterns is a 30" circle at 40 yards, if your gun really shot a 91.5% in a 28" circle it was probably an even a higher % inside of 30".
HOWEVER, I am wondering about your pellet count for a 1 1/8 ounce load of 7.5 shot. You stated 342 pellets. There are supposed to be 350 number 7.5's to the ounce. If you shot a 1 1/8 ounce load there should have been about 394 pellets. That would have given you a pattern of 79.7%, which is still dam good for a 12ga at 40 yards and inside a 28" circle.
Maybe you shot a 1 ounce load of 7.5's, if so you have the tightest shooting 12ga I have heard of or come across.
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