Jug Choking

[Mortblanc]

Not looking for a competition level turkey shoot gun. That is the realm of a special cult of shooters that are barely known even in the US.

And those custom turkey shoot barrels are the result of great expense and a long waiting period if the work is done properly. They are not something the average shooter can or will do at home.

Nor will most of them spend $130 for a forcing cone reamer and another $100 for an expandable choke reamer to improve a single shot shotgun that cost $100.

I know I am not going too.

I just want to get a couple of buckshot pellets to land in the big empty space in the middle of the aiming point.

The plan is to accomplish that with as little time and expense as possible.

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This is one of the test targets. The result of laying a charge of #3 buckshot on top of a load of #7 1/2 bird shot.

It does show that the small shot is still a small game killer at 40 yards but also reveals my real concern, that big empty spot where no buckshot landed right at the point of aim. I need to put a couple of pellets in the middle of that donut hole.

At 40 yards both of the patterns covered a total of 4 feet but outside the 30-36 inch center the shot was scattered and erratic with several empty spots a foot in diameter and the buckshot scattered widely.