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Old 03-14-2009, 02:39 PM
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THANK YOU, very much!!!!
I agree totally with what the first poster after that pictorial layout said. It may well be the best posting of it's type I've ever seen! No more mumbo jumbo, voodoo doll's or chicken entrails to consult.
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Nice article. Thanks for posting.

It’s pretty hard to argue with buckshot. I think I’ll stick with 00 that is what I practice with too. I will use light bird shot in 3 gun competitions but only with a 870. If I really want to win I need the 11-87 with heavy bird shot to make it cycle.
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THANK YOU, very much!!!!
I agree totally with what the first poster after that pictorial layout said. It may well be the best posting of it's type I've ever seen! No more mumbo jumbo, voodoo doll's or chicken entrails to consult.
A blessed relief!
Thanks again!
Oh, there's still all sorts of things that we could argue about when it comes to this sort of thing... Was that gelatin properly calibrated? Where's the chronograph results? What range were the shots taken at? What would a different choke size do? What was the ambient air temp and how long did the gelatin sit out? Is gelatin truly a reliable test medium to simulate all the different gooey and no so gooey bits in a person? How much penetration is enough? How much is too much? Etc, etc.
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Probably Gator?
It's just that for me anymore there's not a whole lot of value in patterning Buckshot any longer. I'm pretty close to certain what a particular number shot is going to act like now, out of which barrel. And barring some quantum leap in barrel/choke/payload packet technology, there's little I expect to see change? I now concentrate on shot materials and plating. A hard plated shot payload that isn't deformed too badly going down the pipe, I'm satisfied with. And once one is at or above a #4 buck as would be expected, larger/heavier shot penetrates more. So there's really nothing that over rules the current existing laws of physics there either?
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Nice article. Thanks for posting.

It’s pretty hard to argue with buckshot. I think I’ll stick with 00 that is what I practice with too. I will use light bird shot in 3 gun competitions but only with a 870. If I really want to win I need the 11-87 with heavy bird shot to make it cycle.
If your 11-87 isn't cycling light, or reduced recoil loads, it may be one of the earlier guns. Remington has corrected this by enlarging the gas ports. Many of us who use an 11-87 in competition have had to have the ports reamed, but I don't recall the size off-hand. Possibly 3/32nds, whatever is one tick larger than the original ports.
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