Finally had some decent weather to shoot in today as it was about 60 degrees with a little wind. I took the 535 with an Indian Creek .660 and a SSX .643 to shoot some Hevi 13 3.5" #7's. All shots at 40 yards lasered. I was pleased with the results from both chokes. The SSX put up slightly higher numbers at 293 and 296, with the Indian Creek not far behind with 288. I think the pellet spread outside of the 10" with the IC was a little more evenly spread than the SSX, which may be a better hunting pattern. Apparently I tend to draw the upper left quadrant slightly bigger when splitting them into 4, which is part of the reason the hits are higher in that section.
SSX 296
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/njdevilsb/000_0135.jpg)
SSX 293
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/njdevilsb/000_0136.jpg)
IC 288
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/njdevilsb/000_0137.jpg)
The SSX pattern looks more even and that's a dead bird with either choke for sure!!
Looks good to me. :icon_thumright:
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Quote from: mightyjoeyoung on April 09, 2011, 08:00:23 PM
The SSX pattern looks more even and that's a dead bird with either choke for sure!!
Yeah I agree, I'm just looking at the pattern around the 10" circle. But I do like the 10" from the SSX a lot. As long as I do my part, all is good. The POI was slightly different between the 2 chokes, so once I decide for sure on which one I'm going to hunt with, I'm going to fine tune the sights a little more. My last shot with the IC, which isn't pictured here, was basically dead on.
Either of those chokes will result in a dead bird!