Patterned my Baikal single shot .410

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I patterned my Baikal single shot .410 today at 25 yards with 3 rounds of Winchester 2.5" Super Speed Xtra No. 6.

I was swinging from right to left, firing at the hole in the centre of the board and followed through.

It loos like a 55/45 pattern to me and I think it will do on grouse out to 20 yards if I do my part.

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Why would you swing right to left on the pattern board, is that the technique you use on grouse?

Normally when you talk about a 55/45 pattern your referring to the 55% being above the horizontal center. Your pattern looks like it has more pellets above the aiming point alright but it has a whole bunch more to the left than right obviously due to you swinging through the target but all that is telling you is that your following through.
 
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Falconflyer said:
Why would you swing right to left on the pattern board, is that the technique you use on grouse?

Normally when you talk about a 55/45 pattern your referring to the 55% being above the horizontal center. Your pattern looks like it has more pellets above the aiming point alright but it has a whole bunch more to the left than right obviously due to you swinging through the target but all that is telling you is that your following through.
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The placement of the pattern board made it safer to swing right to left.

I didn't want to do a static shot with the bead on the target point as that is not how it will be used for wingshots.
 
geologist said:
Back to the range........

At 25 yards with the .410 how many shots would you recommend for the pattern test?
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With what you already know, 2 or 3 separate patterning shots should give you a pretty good idea of what the gun is doing. Some people (like me) go through an elaborate process to pattern a shotgun and they know exactly where it will shoot. Others just bang off a few shots and go with that. I shoot trap with a guy who has never patterned his gun and he does just fine.
 
Read in an article some time ago, where the shooter would take an old bedsheet, mark an X in the centre of it and take multiple static shots at it. The combined effect of the highest concentration of pellets would shred the sheet at the densest points.
 
time4t said:
50 yds with a 410? Um, yah right- possible maybe- stray pellets can sometimes defy the odds. Have used thousands of 410 rounds, multiple patterning tests at 10-40 yds with different guns and chokes, using static patterning followed by wing or dynamic testing is the best approach;and keeping the distance in the 25-30 yd max vicinity produces reliable results.
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Grouse on the ground I have shot at 50-60 yards many times with a .410. Wingshooting, that would be a lucky shot.
 
While your test shows some variables of the gun, it also shows variables of the shell. To simply test only one type of shell tells you nothing conclusive, as in better or worse.

.410 is my favorite chicken gun, and if you can bust clays on a steady basis you're doing well. I have no idea what the "swing" pattern is all about and never heard of it before.



I load my own .410 with a combo of #5 and #7 1/2 shot. It takes their heads off up to 20 ft, drops them cold to 40ft, and wing shoots them to the ground up to 25 yards.


I'm sure people can get a lucky shot up to 50 yards as claimed above, but it mostly sounds like BS to me. I'm betting the story will change quickly on the trap range...too much solar flares or something.
 
Pattern a 410 full at 50 yds before you call someone a liar. I’ve shot at ranges that I would no longer shoot at. The birds are easy to kill if you get pellets on them.
 
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