What is your best pattern with 3.5 2.25oz of number 6 Hevi13? Number in the 10 at 40yds, which choke did you use??
Not my highest in numbers pattern, but the best pattern that I am comfortable hunting with. I do not look for huge numbers but just good even coverage. This pattern is from an 835 24" barrel with a Star Dot .676.
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I've gotten 223 with a poorly drawn circle and a .660 JH
835 and Star Dot .676
Remington 11-87 20in Barrel with Rob Roberts porting, forcing cone lengthed, and polished barrel. Rhino .660 Choke HEVI-13 3in 2oz #6. Smashes turkeys
Quote from: pdaugherty on February 19, 2013, 05:05:17 PM
Remington 11-87 20in Barrel with Rob Roberts porting, forcing cone lengthed, and polished barrel. Rhino .660 Choke HEVI-13 3in 2oz #6. Smashes turkeys
Is that a 40 yard pattern?? And doesn't the percussion from that Rhino choke on that 20 inch barrel blow your hat off??? :drool:
I have the only gun here that never hit 200+ with the 3.5" 2.25oz #6's, I think I hit 180 once and was always 170's.
835 - 24" nonported polished barrel
.676 Stardot
My gun only shoots 3" shells but with an IC 660 it puts 248 in a 10" @ 40yds. Win 1300 22" barrel. Hevi13 #6's.
Quote from: mikejd on February 19, 2013, 09:16:54 PM
My gun only shoots 3" shells but with an IC 660 it puts 248 in a 10" @ 40yds. Win 1300 22" barrel. Hevi13 #6's.
Holy cow ! That's smokin'....... :icon_thumright:
I shoot a 24" ported/polished 835, StarDot .676 and average 210.
Quote from: mikejd on February 19, 2013, 09:16:54 PM
My gun only shoots 3" shells but with an IC 660 it puts 248 in a 10" @ 40yds. Win 1300 22" barrel. Hevi13 #6's.
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I've got the same gun with a PG .670 and I thought 241 in a 10 at 40 yards with Hevi 3-2-7 was pretty good. That's almost unheard of even with 3.5" loads.
Rem. 870 21"polished brl, .660 jellyhead -242
Rem. 870 23"polished brl .660 jellyhead - 198
Rem. 870 26"polished brl .660 jellyhead - 182
Benelli SBEII 24" brl .665 I.C - 170
same gun .665 final strut - 188
I have found that with the H-13 shells the pattern numbers change a lot from year to year and form lot# to lot#.
Quote from: nyhunter on February 20, 2013, 08:05:41 AM
Rem. 870 21"polished brl, .660 jellyhead -242
Rem. 870 23"polished brl .660 jellyhead - 198
Rem. 870 26"polished brl .660 jellyhead - 182
Benelli SBEII 24" brl .665 I.C - 170
same gun .665 final strut - 188
I have found that with the H-13 shells the pattern numbers change a lot from year to year and form lot# to lot#.
Are these with the 3" or 3.5" shells??? :OGturkeyhead:
My 11-87 with a 21" barrel put 202 of the hevi #5 shot in a ten at 40. I was shooting one of the old MAD Max choke tubes.
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Quote from: nyhunter on February 20, 2013, 08:05:41 AM
Rem. 870 21"polished brl, .660 jellyhead -242
Rem. 870 23"polished brl .660 jellyhead - 198
Rem. 870 26"polished brl .660 jellyhead - 182
Benelli SBEII 24" brl .665 I.C - 170
same gun .665 final strut - 188
I have found that with the H-13 shells the pattern numbers change a lot from year to year and form lot# to lot#.
This is interesting data. Be interesting to compare that type jelly head in short vs long barrels. I've never had a short barrel gun out perform a long barrel. Wonder if the design of that jelly head is for short barrels.
Here's the best I have seen. And this was my buddy Mark and his 835 and my Pure Gold .670 choke I gave him using Hevi-13 3" 1.75oz #6 at a tape measured 40yds. Temp was 75 degrees.
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Quote from: Fullfan on February 20, 2013, 07:36:25 PM
My 11-87 with a 21" barrel put 202 of the hevi #5 shot in a ten at 40. I was shooting one of the old MAD Max choke tubes.
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If I could get that on a constant basis then that is what I would be shooting! :icon_thumright:
They were all 3.5" 2.25oz H-13 #6's. I was a little surprised myself that the shorter 870 brl out performed them all. I also tried a I.C .665 in the Remingtons but the Jelly head out performed it, " not by much tho". That 870 with the 21"brl actually shot better with 3" H-13 #6's than my high dollar SBEII with 3.5" 2.25oz #6's. If you don think that makes me just a little unhappy.
Can't remeber the exact number, and didn't feel like trying to count them on a computer screen, but here's somewhere in the neighborhood of 240 out of my SBEII with 2.25oz hevi 13 load, shooting a jelly head. I had an 835 that with the same load and choke would shoot mid 260's. I didn't save any pictures of those patterns though.
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I was happy with this pattern, the 20 numbers were good as well. Gives me some room for error. That's a 3 inch shell.
I decided on a Sumtoy for my old SBE with a 26" barrel, shootin Hevi13, 3.5, 2.25 of #6 shot, it put 261 in the 10 at a measured 40yds with good smooth pattern in the 20.
Quote from: jbrown on February 22, 2013, 09:44:46 PM
I decided on a Sumtoy for my old SBE with a 26" barrel, shootin Hevi13, 3.5, 2.25 of #6 shot, it put 261 in the 10 at a measured 40yds with good smooth pattern in the 20.
What size Sumtoy choke??
Quote from: jbrown on February 22, 2013, 09:44:46 PM
I decided on a Sumtoy for my old SBE with a 26" barrel, shootin Hevi13, 3.5, 2.25 of #6 shot, it put 261 in the 10 at a measured 40yds with good smooth pattern in the 20.
I would of loved to seen that pattern. You must have got a shell with a lot smaller shot than normal.