Fifty yards is stretching it for a pattern of BS. Forty yards is what most coyote hunters pattern at. I load BBB lead for coyotes, sixty pellets in 2 3/4" shell. I'm happy with seven to nine pellets in a eight inch paper plate at forty yards. Of course this is out of a 23" barrel.
Where do you live? My state allows slugs for deer but prohibits BS. If you are hunting deer, you are probably using 00 or 000 BS. Not many pellets to begin with.
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