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Turkey Guns & Shooting => 12 ga Browning pattern pictures => Topic started by: 10gaugemag on April 07, 2015, 09:49:00 PM

Title: Browning 3" Gold Longbeard #5
Post by: 10gaugemag on April 07, 2015, 09:49:00 PM
Got out and shot the Gold tonight with Longbeards. Shot patterns with a Hastings .685 and my Star Dot which mic's at .667-.668. 40 yards measured with a fiberglass tape, 75 degrees.
 Hastings did a 144.
Title: Re: Browning 3" Gold Longbeard #5
Post by: 10gaugemag on April 07, 2015, 09:53:26 PM
Star Dot. I did a recount by moving the plate a smidge down and left, 153 initial count, recount after pics yielded 165.
Title: Re: Browning 3" Gold Longbeard #5
Post by: 10gaugemag on April 08, 2015, 06:46:03 PM
SSX .643 40 yards LB 3" #5 Not real impressed, may try #6 LB through this tight choke as it did better with #6 Thugs compared to the #5 Thugs.
Title: Re: Browning 3" Gold Longbeard #5
Post by: 10gaugemag on April 09, 2015, 08:25:56 AM
Here is a 3" #5 Longbeard through the factory flush full. I don't know if these loads need a bit of choke to help upset the resin used as a buffer or what but they did no better through this choke than any of my standard buffered 1 7/8 oz. or 2 oz. loads of #4 or #5. Nothing even about the 10" or overall pattern.
Title: Browning 3" Gold Longbeard #5
Post by: ThunderChickenGetter on April 09, 2015, 09:05:04 AM
I'm shooting the 5's in my 835 with a .675 Indian Creek and I'm getting around 200-210 in the 10
Title: Re: Browning 3" Gold Longbeard #5
Post by: 10gaugemag on April 09, 2015, 09:06:07 AM
I'm shooting the 5's in my 835 with a .675 Indian Creek and I'm getting around 200-210 in the 10
3 1/2"??
Title: Re: Browning 3" Gold Longbeard #5
Post by: darn2ten on April 09, 2015, 12:27:26 PM
That star dot combo has a pretty nice even center core, nothing wrong with the Hastings either. That SSX does have to many gaps in it, your idea with the 6's would probably work better.
Title: Re: Browning 3" Gold Longbeard #5
Post by: surehuntsalot on April 12, 2015, 09:53:59 PM
nice patterns