Will someone explain to me how a 20 gauge 3 inch with TSS can produce as good or better pattern then a identical 12 with a .555 choke can? Just want an explanation to what I have seen.
Thanks
longbeards
This depends on guns and loads. There is not much of a chance a 20 gauge with 1 5/8 oz of #9 TSS would out perform a 12 gauge with 2 1/4 oz of the same shot. I don't think the .555 is available in 12 gauge, that's a 20 gauge choke constriction. Sometimes a choke is "over choked" for the particular gun and load and blows the pattern (looks a lot like a donut with a thin pattern in the middle or splotchy). If both gauges, shooting the same shot, and both guns had their optimum choke diameter, the twelve would 99.5% of the time out shoot the twenty just based on sheer numbers of shot. Where the 20 shines is with the small TSS shot that is of such high density that it carries the lethality the same as #5 lead with twice the number of pellets on target as #5s in the same shell. If you shoot the 12, try a .660 - .665 constriction. The twenty will have half the recoil and 2-3 lbs less weight to lug around. Hope that makes some sense....
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Thanks
That was a typo on the 555, should have been 655
From what I have seen, is the 3 inch 20, With no 9 TSS
Will preform as well as the 12, with 3" No 9 TSS, in a 20 inch circle
At 40 yards
Bought a M2 compact and waiting on it to get back to set up and try!!
Can't Wait
Try a .562 Sumtoy, .570 Jebs or a .575 Carlsons. I guarantee one of them will pattern the TSS for you in that gun. Here is my 26" Franchi Affinity with the .562....