You'd better have him near the middle of your pattern, though, and not on the edge. The edges of that pattern are pretty sketchy. That's a pretty "hot core", which is fine as long as you're dead on him. You'll be putting lot of shot in the body of a big pheasant if you've got 'im in the middle of that.

I'd have to see what several shots look like at 45 yards before pronouncing judgement on it.

SRH

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