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Originally Posted by David LaPell
I made up some targets and set them up at 5, 10, and 15 yards. The gun did very well, and I figure that 15 yards is as long as I could think of shooting indoors, especially where I live.
I measured them later on and the groups measured out to be 3 1/2 inches or so at 5 yards but I don't know where the wad ended up in all that, the 10 yard group was 4 inches and the 15 yard group was 6 3/4 inches at its widest point.
I guess what I was trying to do was, like we set up and pattern our shotguns to hunt, you need to see what they will do at different ranges if you use them for personal defense. I'll play around with different ammo but this stuff surprised me at how good it did with this gun, of course not all will do the same, why we pattern and test them.
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That's some surprising results there. My experience has been the same as that of other posters using the 870: 1" per yard expansion, from an 18" barrel.
You are getting ~1/2" per yard. Impressive.