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Originally Posted by Dean Romig
Are you boys using shot cups? The guns were patterned without them... but you knew that.
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Dean, How many Parker (or any maker) 12ga's have you patterned with modern loads that will produce an 88% pattern? How many 10's that will throw 93%? The ones I have tested won't do it. The best 12's get into the low 80's and the 10's high 80's. Using modern loads through each makers guns is an apple to apple test.
Scott has done a lot more pattern testing and he has found his Ithaca's have consistently patterned tighter than Parker's gun for gun. He even had a Super Ten that printed 99+%.
Scott shot some old pre shot cup paper shell factory ammo and got surprised when it achieved some tight patterns, in the order of 85% with #4's. Testing similar loads with and without shot cups is probably worthy of a finding out for myself testing because I think the results may surprise us and show less difference than we assumed.
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