20ga. 870 Magnum Patterns

[batsonbe]

It seems like most people are shooting the HW Fed #7's. They are definitely throwing awesome patterns for you all! Does any one on here shoot the nitro 4x5x7? My buddy is saling me all of his hevishot for dirt cheap. I have a sumtoy .562 on the way. Eager to pattern my little 20ga. It was the first gun I ever purchased when I was a little boy.

Thank you

[wmd]

My son and I killed quite a few with the 4x5x7 Nitros, the Mega-weight version of that load (believe it was 4x5x6MWx 7-HS and then 5x6MWx7-HS) and the straight 7-HS in 20 ga Compact 1187s using a Hastings .562 and a Hastings .566.  I still have some that we hunt with and if I could get them cheap I would not have any issues hunting with them - if I can find some of the pattern pictures I will post them. 

[batsonbe]

I only got 108 pellets at 40yrds. It was pretty sparse in my opinion. I bought some tss. Haven't patterned it yet

[RAJ]

The Winchester longbeard XR in #6 should give more than that with the Sumtoy 562. Are you drawing the 10" circle after you shoot and over the densest part of the pattern?

[batsonbe]

Yea i shot then drew a circle around the best. The pattern was pathetic. I'm assuming just the wrong choke for that load. I bought some tss to try as well. 8x9. Haven't shot them yet but I now have a .555 Ic .562-5 and 562-3 Sumtoy's.

Just waiting to take my gun to get it tapped and drilled. Then I'll pattern it again

[RAJ]

The 562-5 is nasty with the Longbeard 6s and especially the now phased out Fed HW 7s.

[Doug Lewis]

You'll throw all that other stuff away when you shoot that tss through the Indian Creek.

[nyhunter]

You'll throw all that other stuff away when you shoot that tss through the Indian Creek.

      That's right throw all that other stuff that wont kill a turkey anymore like it did in the past in a brown paper bag and i'll take it to the dump for you, I don't want you wasting your time going to the dump when you could be patterning those $35.00 a box new shells. 

[snodswinger89]

The ic 555 and toss is nasty

[batsonbe]

.555 IC Did 292 in the 10" 144 in the 20"
.562.3 Sumtoy 264 and 192
.562.5 Sumtoy 237 and 172

I felt like the .555 was slightly blown. It had some large holes in the 10 and 20"