WheelMan
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The cannon on the battlements of my castle is a Mossberg 590A1 (I'm left handed, if that makes any Remington fans feel better)
Anyway, I went out the other day to check the sights and get some patterns.
My house is an oddly laid out affair. Opposite the front door in the living room is a portal leading to the computer room, opposite that portal in the computer room is another leading into the kitchen. On the other side of the kitchen is the door to the garage. So if you're standing at the front door and the garage door in the kitchen is open you can see all the way through those rooms to the opposite wall of the garage... which is also the opposite exterior wall. A total distance of about 50 feet. It would be an extremely odd circumstance to have to take this shot but it is possible.
The living room/computer/room and kitchen are all rectangular and the previously described view is across the narrow aspect of each room. In any one room the longest shot is about 20 feet.
So giving all of that I decided to pattern at 21 and 50 feet and give more "weight" to the results at 21.
I'm using federal reduced tactical loads. #4, 00 and 000
I discovered that the bigger the shot the tighter the pattern, at least with these loads and my gun. That being said the #4 pattern wasn't terrible bigger than the 000. Overall I'm looking at about 2-3 inches at 21 feet and 12-16 inches at 50.
I was hoping that the patterning data would help me decide which load to to use, it hasn't really, but it has made me confident that any of them can put a pretty good amount of lead on target.
I'm thinking I might get some #1 and try that.
Anyway, I went out the other day to check the sights and get some patterns.
My house is an oddly laid out affair. Opposite the front door in the living room is a portal leading to the computer room, opposite that portal in the computer room is another leading into the kitchen. On the other side of the kitchen is the door to the garage. So if you're standing at the front door and the garage door in the kitchen is open you can see all the way through those rooms to the opposite wall of the garage... which is also the opposite exterior wall. A total distance of about 50 feet. It would be an extremely odd circumstance to have to take this shot but it is possible.
The living room/computer/room and kitchen are all rectangular and the previously described view is across the narrow aspect of each room. In any one room the longest shot is about 20 feet.
So giving all of that I decided to pattern at 21 and 50 feet and give more "weight" to the results at 21.
I'm using federal reduced tactical loads. #4, 00 and 000
I discovered that the bigger the shot the tighter the pattern, at least with these loads and my gun. That being said the #4 pattern wasn't terrible bigger than the 000. Overall I'm looking at about 2-3 inches at 21 feet and 12-16 inches at 50.
I was hoping that the patterning data would help me decide which load to to use, it hasn't really, but it has made me confident that any of them can put a pretty good amount of lead on target.
I'm thinking I might get some #1 and try that.