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Old September 27, 1999, 09:50 PM   #12
Art Eatman
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Join Date: November 13, 1998
Location: Terlingua, TX; Thomasville, GA
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Now that you have all this wisdome firmly commited to memory, here's the next stage of being happy with your shotty-gun: Patterning.

Find yourself a roll or at least 20' or 30' length of some sort of blank paper some 30" to 36" wide. Cut it into 36" lengths. Paint a little aiming point in the middle. Either make a frame to hold it or tape it to a barbed-wire (bob-war) fence.

Back off to around 25 or 30 yards. Shoot. You may be lucky and find that the pattern is evenly distributed across the paper, with most of the little holes within a circle of, oh, 24" or 30" depending on the choke.

Or, to your horror, you may have blank spots with no shot holes at all; maybe six or eight inches across! Doves, quail and claybirds fly right on through! Yuck!

Nobody on this earth can tell you exactly why one brand or load will do fine, nor why an equal-quality brand or load will not. This does not mean you can't find 17,237 opinions about it...

I state posilutely absotively that this is one of the more important things you must do in order to have success with your pet. But, once you have gone to the bother, you will know what to buy and what not to buy before you go hunting skeets or traps or doves.

Enjoy!

Art
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