Ringbill's Patterning Page

ringbill's work

Without the work of tripleb this page would not be possible since most of the pictures are his. The first two tables are from a 26" Nova, the third is from a 28" SBE and the fourth is the Nova again. His results include a lot of reloads, Kent Steel, Kent Impact, Estate Steel, Winchester Steel and more. The chokes are .665 and .675 Terror, a Wad Wizard Supreme, and a few factory chokes, Hastings, and Briley. His 10ga patterns.
I also want to thank dukfvr for letting me use his data as well. He is using a Benelli SBE with a 28" barrel and shot a Wad Wizard Swat, .700 Terror, and .655 Terror and factory Federal HHV and HeviShot.
I need to add woodsie picts as well. He is using a Benelli M1 with Kent FastSteel and HighSpeed Kent Impact with extended Briley chokes.
Thanks to ringbill for his data from a Winchester Super X2 and a Benelli with .700 Terror
My results are here using a SBE with 28" and WW SWAT, and WW Supreme .700, Briley X2 LM, and Briley X2 IM chokes and factory Winchester, Kent, Estate, Remington, Baschieri & Pellagri, and some dove loads.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions feel free to e-mail me.
Thanks

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Basics of Patterning
Pattern and Penetration Testing by Rob Douglas

Winchester X2 patterns w/ HEVI handloads

I wish I could take the photos and put them in here like BBB----but I can't, so here's what I came up with patterning different HEVI handloads out of my X2 with a factory FULL choke.
Weather was nice (for up here!) with sun, 10-15 ABOVE zero, 10-15 MPH wind that was NOT a factor where we shot. ALL the shells were left outside and were cold---& all fired A-OK.

at 30 yards

1 0z HEVI 5's---------------80-90%
1-1/8 oz HEVI 5's-----------81-94%

At 40 yards

1-1/8 oz HEVI 5's-----------60-65%
1-1/4 oz HEVI #5------------59-69%
1-3/8 oz HEVI 4 ------------50-55%

1-5/8 oz buffered 3" HEVI loads at 40 yds
HEVI #4s----------------74-78%
HEVI 3's----------------65-70%
HEVI DUPLEX--#2/#3-----75-80%
all these 3" patterns looked very good to me
This factory Invector FULL seems to give me the patterns I'm looking for, so I think I'll stick with it for now. *(Note*-when I previously patterned different HEVI loads with more open chokes, they showed me more open patterns---something that I'd compare to what chokes did with lead.) The tighter patterns I was looking for to fit my needs, was found with this FULL invector choke.

I still feel that I'd like to get a super tight choke that would pattern HEVI 2 & BB out to 60+ yds for snows and blues only.
Who has ideas on this? (With HEVI shot)

Ringbill

Here's the approximate pellet counts w/ X2
At30 yards

1 oz #5'---(up to:/High#)-----150

1-1/8 oz #5----" "----------176

At 40 yards

1-1/4 + 23grains of HEVI #5 shot----124

1-3/8 OZ of HEVI #4's--------------- 88

1-5/8 oz (Buffered) of HEVI #4------139

1-5/8 OZ " of (DUPLEX GOOSE LOAD)
HEVI #3 & HEVI #2's-----120

At 50 yards, I shot the 3" buffered load of HEVI #4's and had 71 pellets

These are all RSI's HEVI manual recipes.

Ringbill

.700 Terror patterns w/HEVI & Steel shots

Yesterday I took time off work to capitalize on the nice weather up here and get some patterning done with my HEVI handloads in my X2 and Karen's Benelli Montefeltro.

It was mostly sunny and +10 to 15 above zero, with maybe a 10-15 MPH wind that didn't get into our patterning area much. We've still got a LOT of snow up here (we've had over 100 ") and I left all the shells out in the cold and they all fired just fine.

Benelli 12 ga. Montefeltro
with a .700 TERROR choke

REMINGTON 3" STEEL Nitro Mags,(2,3) 1375 FPS
at 30 yds- patterns were between 85% and 95%

at 40 yds- " " " 58% & 67%

all patterns showed more than 90 hits

HEVI Handloads---.700 TERROR in Benelli

1 oz HEVI #5s at 30 yards---60--73%
1 oz HEVI #5s at 40 yards--mid 60%

1-1/8 oz HEVI 5's at 30 yards---60--72%
1-1/8 oz HEVI 5's at 40 yards---low 60%

1-1/4 oz HEVI 5's at 30 yds---70---82%
1-1/4 oz HEVI 5's at 40 yds---50---57%

1-3/8 oz HEVI #4s at 40 yds---Upper 50%

1-5/8 oz buffered HEVI-----at 40 yards

#4 HEVI ------------------- high 40%

#3 HEVI--------------------- high 40%

#2 HEVI-----------------Upper 70--low 80%

these same loads at 50---55 yards

# 3 HEVI---------------------Mid 40%

# 2 HEVI---------------------high 60%

The 1-5/8 load (Goose) and the 1-1/4 oz load (Ducks) are my "Keeper loads" that not only had enough pellet numbers for the range we'll be shooting, but they patterned good, showing uniformity in distribution.

Ringbill