Pattern Talk

[spitndrum]

How many pellets should I expect out of a 3" shell at 30 yards?
I shot today and got about 70-80 in a 5 inch circle...
I shot at 15 yards for fun and blew a golf ball sized hole in the circle

 

[JohnnyBond]

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

More info would help bro..... gun, choke constriction, shell load?

 

[spitndrum]

Stoeger M2000
Comp N Choke
Winchester Xtended Range No 6s 3"

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

Got any pics?

Sounds like average.... hard to say without something to look at..... you should polish or at the very least, deep clean your barrel.

 

[spitndrum]

How many pellets are in a load?

 

[Chaneylake]

How many pellets are in a load?

need #ounces you are shooting

 

[downthebrown]

This is what I look like at 30yrds with a 3" magnum blend

 

[spitndrum]

Thats prolly what I look like as well today but I was shooting at a 5 inch circle not a turkey head might make it look different?

 

[spitndrum]

How many pellets are in a load?

need #ounces you are shooting

 

[Chaneylake]

How many pellets are in a load?

if you will google "mec reloaders" scroll through their sight you will find a chart that give # pellets, I think its in the powder charge section

 

[downthebrown]

It's somewhere around 400 pellets of 5,6, and 7 shot and 2oz in weight. At 40yrds, it looks almost identical if it wasn't for the flinch I had. To say I am pleased is an understatement compared to what else I patterned.

 

[REN]

Got any pics?

Sounds like average.... hard to say without something to look at..... you should polish or at the very least, deep clean your barrel.

you CANT polish a stoeger barrel or atleast it is not recommended. It has a chrome lined barrel so you really shouldnt do anything to mess it up. Same reason why you should not try and lengthen and polish the forcing cone on them.

as far as pattern i am not real sure the numbers for 30yds in a 5inch circle but yours sounds pretty good IMO. I know anything in the 150-250 range at 40yds in a 10inch circle is nothing to complain about.

when i shot mine last at 30yds before i switched chokes i had about 100 pellets in a 5-6inch circle. I am going to shoot mine this weekend and will post some pics.

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

you CANT polish a stoeger barrel or atleast it is not recommended. It has a chrome lined barrel so you really shouldnt do anything to mess it up. Same reason why you should not try and lengthen and polish the forcing cone on them.

10-4.... I am not familiar with the newer Stoeger shotguns as I am only a Remington shotgun man..... I can tell you about them... :grin:


Carry on Spit.

 

[spitndrum]

IDK what this is all about Griz I might have not counted right

 

[Buck Assassin]

Sounds pretty good to me!