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In Bob Brister's "Shotgunning - The Art and Science"...
Brister describes the poorer performance of soft lead shot in shotgun patterns.
If I recall correctly, Brister reports that hard shot tightens up patterns dramatically compared to the exact same gun, choke, and load with the only change being the softness of the lead shot.
Since many of the local trap shooters either shoot promotional factory loads or reloads with soft lead shot, are they really getting modified choke performance from the full chokes which they insist are required for trap ?
Would a modified choke with similar soft lead shot loads perform more like an improved-cylinder choke ?
If they shot the hard lead shot instead of the soft lead shot would a modified choke be more acceptable ?
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In Bob Brister's "Shotgunning - The Art and Science"...
Brister describes the poorer performance of soft lead shot in shotgun patterns.
If I recall correctly, Brister reports that hard shot tightens up patterns dramatically compared to the exact same gun, choke, and load with the only change being the softness of the lead shot.
Since many of the local trap shooters either shoot promotional factory loads or reloads with soft lead shot, are they really getting modified choke performance from the full chokes which they insist are required for trap ?
Would a modified choke with similar soft lead shot loads perform more like an improved-cylinder choke ?
If they shot the hard lead shot instead of the soft lead shot would a modified choke be more acceptable ?
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