Shotgun Question

[Delmonico]

Test at the range you are going to be shooting at.  A lage sheet of paper with an aiming spot is all that is needed.  Shoot at the spot, the center of the patern should be at that point.  Now cut a piece of clear or tranlusent plastic the size and shpe of the target you want to hit, kill or knock down or cut a pice of cardboard the same size.  Lay yer plastic on the aiming point or trace around the cardboard.  Now look, did you put enought shot on the target to do what you want?  That is the simple Delmonico way of patterning. 

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Badlands, to make it easier to remember, Full means a LOT of choke, so the end of the barrel will be narrower and the pattern will be tighter. Open means NO choke, so the pattern will be wider.

The SASS handbook recommends a 16x16 inch target placed at 8 to 16 yards.

You don't have to go out and buy a special target. You can use  brown wrapping paper cut to size. The problem is most public ranges don't have any kind of set up under 25 yards, so a 16"x 16" target won't work for you.

You can take the brown paper, which can be easily found at 36" widths, and cut several squares of it, then use the 25 yard range, trying out different chokes. That will give you your patterns and a good idea of how your shotgun is shooting.

Just a thought,

AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

A 16"X16" at 8 to 16 yards, heck, if yas miss that ya get the white cane award.  My grandpa whould a whooped my but fer wastin' a shot shell on a stading target.  Sould be 4"X 4" and moving at least 25 mph.  Heck who would need to care about choke at that range, a sugger full should be inpossible to miss at that range.