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In defense of "choke openers".....

Many of the old classic double left the factory bored FULL & FULL. Or even EXTRA FULL. For most of us that hunt upland game. shoot sporting clays, and/or skeet -- those chokes are way too tight.

On these classic American oldies, I often have the right barrel opened to IC, and leave the left as FULL. Not a bad combo. I then handload "spreaders" for use in the tight barrel when shooting skeet. Works for me....

JERRY

Tut: One of the loads in the 80%+ category was a reload, with which I was quite pleased! The other was the Federal 1 1/4 oz, copper plated, buffered 6's--the so-called 16ga magnum load. Expect the buffering had something to do with the tight pattern. I've found that previously when testing various loads.

On the low end, both were factory loads: Kent's Tungsten Matrix, 1 1/16 oz 5's, and Rem Express 1 1/8 oz 5's. Interestingly, Kent's Tungsten Matrix 1 1/4 oz 5's did much better, at 74%.