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My AYA lightweight ten is choked .041 and .041. Last week, I shot a couple of patterns with WW 1 3/4 ounce steel #2s. At 45 yards, a woodcock couldn't have found a hole to fly through, so I shot some paper at 60 measured yards. Any goose would have had ten or more pellets in the body area at that range. The pattern was just lovely with some clumping but no empty areas. My paper wasn't big enough to tell how large the entire pattern was. Judging from the number of shot on the paper, the pattern couldn't have been very much larger than the area I could see. I was amazed at how well the load patterned. I have some buffered 2 1/4 ounce lead loads from the old days that I would like to try. I don't know what to expect, but high ninety percent range at 40 yards would not surprise me. My old 3 1/4" chambered Fox with chokes in the .040 range shot devastating patterns at 50 yards with my old lead #4 loads, much tighter than I expected. I never shot that gun at 60 yards but expect it would still throw killing patterns for mallards or pheasants. Sorry to say I sold that great gun to a friend who opened the chokes. My mistake. Some guys just can't stand to leave well enough alone.
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