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Just curious: what is your go-to load?I definitely do! My sbe 2 is one of my primary firearms for work so I must know exactly what it's capable of 100% of the time. I tested alot of different brands of ammo before I settled in on my go to load.
3 inch federal #4 buck for coyotes and faststeel 3 1/2 #2 shot for ducks and guls. Geese I use the same faststeel but in bbJust curious: what is your go-to load?
To tackle rising targets, a trap gun is configured so that it shoots slightly high. This enables the shooter to fire with the target in view just above the muzzle end of the rib, and hit it right in the middle of the pattern. That's why most trap clubs have a pattern board, so you can see if your particular trap barrel throws a 60/40 (60% of pattern above point-of-aim) pattern, or a 70/30 pattern, and so on. Also, your favorite new overpriced choke tube may not be perfectly concentric, and a pattern board will show you that, as well. The Seattle Skeet & Trap club in Ravensdale used to have (or maybe still has) a totally old school "wood frame and sheet steel, with bucket of grease and paint roller" setup that was kind of fun to use.Never heard of it before my father in-law mentioned it a year or so ago…… he HAD to pattern his shockwave
Other than barrel length…. How different can it be? I guess the choke can change it….. that said I'm not familiar with them at all.
I probably would be more interested if I had a range to do it at…. My range is slugs only on rifle side (50 yards only) and or #7.5-8) on trap side or "pattern board" that so shot up already…. Guess I'm supposed to just paint it and see where my target loads hit at 25-30 yards. Why is that helpful?
Another consideration: I only have home security pump and AR12…18"ers. So I figured #4 or 000 bucks are paper plate size… little bigger.
Thank you. Had no idea. No trap gun here yet.To tackle rising targets, a trap gun is configured so that it shoots slightly high. This enables the shooter to fire with the target in view just above the muzzle end of the rib, and hit it right in the middle of the pattern. That's why most trap clubs have a pattern board, so you can see if your particular trap barrel throws a 60/40 (60% of pattern above point-of-aim) pattern, or a 70/30 pattern, and so on. Also, your favorite new overpriced choke tube may not be perfectly concentric, and a pattern board will show you that, as well. The Seattle Skeet & Trap club in Ravensdale used to have (or maybe still has) a totally old school "wood frame and sheet steel, with bucket of grease and paint roller" setup that was kind of fun to use.
In my experience 00 buck is a no go for coyotes. I tested alot of brands out of alot of guns with poor results. In fact I'm sitting on alot of "dead coyote" 00 buck if anyone wants to test some high end 00.Years ago, I had 2 870's and a 1100. I'd done some reading about lengthening forcing cones to improve patterns and set about renting a forcing cone reamer from 4-D and doing it myself. Before cutting cones I patterned all three guns. After reaming and honing the cones, I patterned them again to assess the effect that my ream job had.
A few days ago, my nephew in Idaho called and picked my brain about why he missed hitting a coyote twice from about 10 yards with loads of 00B. I told him to pattern the gun to see where POA and POI might differ. I've not heard back yet...