Howcome ?

[skeet]

Wouldn't it be great if you could use that load #1?? That is a pretty good pattern. I also notice that a couple of the steel pattens seem to have a hole low center actually probably just shoots a little higher than the lead any way. The T pattern looks skimpy but remember the load only has about 60-65 pellet so the pattern isn't really that bad. When the choke is made for larger pellets in steel it won't pattern smaller any where as well as the larger. The larger pellets need a little bit of fudge room so they can squeeze through the choke where the smaller shot has a little more ...well liquidity is a fair word and you can use a bit ighter choke for the smaller sizes. Still every now and then one will pop up and surprise ya. As far as speed with steel they found out in the first couple of years that traditional speeds did not kill as well with steel. So after a lot of work they got the speeds up to where steel kills somewhat better. But even fast steel will never really kill as well as lead or the heavy hi tech stuff. The new hi tech stuff and lead just kills consistently beter that steel from close to long range. Even with that ..shots at waterfowl should be kept inside 50 yds for the average hunter. We even had some pits in the past that we used a 150 ft rope on to make sure we kept the decoys inside of 50 yds. 50 yds is a long way.