When everything got locked down this last april my turkey gun was in the camp safe 200 miles away. No turkey ammo for my 20 but I had some lead 6's for my grandfathers 410. Took her out to see if she could throw a decent pattern. Went hunting with 25yds furthest shot but darn did I love carrying it and patterning. Flat out enjoyable.
Got me a Savage 301 to see if we could throw some respectable patterns a bit further. I took 44 shots today. My jaw is still intact and nothings ringing! Would ya look at that, lovely.
I cleaned pretty good before hand and degreased it all but didn't do any "breaking in" short of sighting in the red dot with a few lead 6's. I ran a bore snake through it after every 2 shots and every 4 shots I ran a brush through it. Took shots with each combo at 10, 20, 30 & 40.
I used:
Factory Choke - .388
Nitro Choke - .390
Federal TSS 9's
Nitro T4100 9x10's
Factory Choke, Federal 9:
30yds – 130 hits
40yds – 101 hits
Factory Choke, Nitro 9x10:
30yds – 235 hits
40yds - 160 hits
Nitro Choke, Federal 9:
30yds – 91 hits
40yds – 91 hits
Clear Winner:
Nitro Choke, Nitro 9x10:
30yds – 276 hits
40yds – 203 hits
40yds 2nd time – 202 hits (it was getting kind of late so I put the orange dot on the money spot to help out, moved it for the pick to lower left)
and at 10 & 20:
