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I see pictures of a coupla pieces of paper with a buncha holes in 'em. Doesn't tell me much of anything beyond that. That's what shotguns with buckshot DO after all, make a bunch of holes in things.
Knowing what pattern a single round of a given load will consistently yield, out of a given shotgun at a given range, is useful information. What does your shotgun and your chosen load do at 3 yards? At 5 yards? At 7 yards? And so on.
What does the total payload of that 00 buck load weigh? How about the 000 load? How many pellets in each load? What's the muzzle velocity of each? How does each one pattern at different ranges?
Using up ammo to learn something useful is a good thing. Otherwise, it's pretty much just an exercise in converting expensive ammo into noise, as far as I can tell.
lpl (old phart buzzkill stick in the mud)
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