Has anyone patterned the Longbeards at close range, say 15 yds or so? Wondering if it is like a slug at close range and when it starts opening up. Couldn't help but buy a box, but too cold to shoot around here. Thanks.
Quote from: joeyc on February 26, 2014, 03:52:12 PM
Has anyone patterned the Longbeards at close range, say 15 yds or so? Wondering if it is like a slug at close range and when it starts opening up. Couldn't help but buy a box, but too cold to shoot around here. Thanks.
I have shot it at 20, and it looked identical to turkey thugs. It wasn't "too tight" as a lot of people try to say it "might be" (without ever testing it)
If you shoot it at 15, expect to see a baseball hole through the paper... my gun does this with light dove loads, 15 yards is too close to even attempt to gather information from.
Quote from: klemsontigers7 on February 26, 2014, 03:57:51 PM
Quote from: joeyc on February 26, 2014, 03:52:12 PM
Has anyone patterned the Longbeards at close range, say 15 yds or so? Wondering if it is like a slug at close range and when it starts opening up. Couldn't help but buy a box, but too cold to shoot around here. Thanks.
I have shot it at 20, and it looked identical to turkey thugs. It wasn't "too tight" as a lot of people try to say it "might be" (without ever testing it)
If you shoot it at 15, expect to see a baseball hole through the paper... my gun does this with light dove loads, 15 yards is too close to even attempt to gather information from.
Agreed , why not 5 yards?
I never shoot at 5 yds. I usually let them walk a little closer then grab it.
You jest, but I HAVE done that! Tom caught me off guard and came in quiet behind me while I worked a bird in front of me. When he gobbled...at no more than 15 yards behind me I about shat myself, and amazingly didn't spook him when i swear I came about a foot off the ground! He strutted right to left, right in front of the barrel of my 835 at no more than 4 yards. Thank god for good trigger jobs because all I had to do was wait for him to put his own head in front of the gunand I literally ERASED his face and most of his neck, rolling him back probably another 3 or 4 yards. I have a polaroid of it somewhere I'll have to find and scan. Talk about gruesome!! :o
I have shot the lb's at 20 yards to see if there was any significant rise in pattern I could not. There also no golf ball hole just a lot of shot in a seven or eight inch diameter. At that range a bird would most likely loose it's head.
Here is the #6's at 20 yards with a Jellyhead out of my 835(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/02/27/5umututu.jpg)
Looks like most of my 20 yard patterns but possibly a bit over choked?
The 20yd patterns I have seen with the LB's are not any tighter than my patterns with other loads at that distance. Thanks for posting.
Quote from: joeyc on February 26, 2014, 05:46:28 PM
I never shoot at 5 yds. I usually let them walk a little closer then grab it.
I believe it lol
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