Do any of you guys have a picture of a pattern with #9 tss at 40 yards with a .575 or .580?
http://oldgobbler.com/Forum/index.php/topic,112525.0.html
Testing a couple of different chokes:
This is a .575 Carlson on the end of a Mossberg 20 gauge Super Bantam.
40Yards
Apex 3" #9's 1 5/8oz
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Stoeger m3020 compact
1 5/8oz Rogue #9
Carlson's non-ported .575
40 yards
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Stoeger m3020
Sumtoy .580
Rogue 1 5/8 9s
40 yards
I know the 20" circle isn't quite round...please forgive me.
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I guess I'm not smart enough to know how to share a picture on here from my iPad but, in my experience, .575 to .580 is the perfect choke for TSS.
I have a .575 Carlsons in my youth 870 with 21" barrel and at 40 yards it was easier to count pellets OUTSIDE of the 20" circle so that's what I did...of 590 pellets in the 1 5/8 ounces of #9, only 41 were OUTSIDE of the 20" circle...so 550 inside it and they were very evenly dispersed, without any voids across that pattern.
That's a 3" Apex #9 through a Trulock .575 on an old NEF Pardner.
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Stock ported extended .575 Charles Daly tube, 101 single shot shooting 2-3/4 Burgess Creek 1-3/8 oz #9's.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240621/3f359bc4c26a250628077e0cbf14e6df.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240621/f13488f23bd07c28b364717d9aad1c9f.jpg)
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Quote from: ChesterCopperpot on June 16, 2024, 12:45:39 PMThat's a 3" Apex #9 through a Trulock .575 on an old NEF Pardner.
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That's an awesome pattern. I love the Trulock chokes in .575 and .585. Those Precision Hunters can stand toe to toe with any of the chokes out there.