Best 12ga Pattern with Hevi13 number 6's

[jbrown]

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??

[davisd9]

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.

[bowhunter2k9]

I've gotten 223 with a poorly drawn circle and a .660 JH

[goblr77]

835 and Star Dot .676

[pdaugherty]

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

[SKFOOTER]

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???

[Tom Foolery]

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

[mikejd]

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.

[BowBendr]

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'.......

I shoot a 24" ported/polished 835, StarDot .676 and average 210.

[TnTurk]

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.

[nyhunter]

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#.

[SKFOOTER]

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???

[Fullfan]

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.

[savduck]

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.

[ILIKEHEVI-13]

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.