I recently had opportunity to fire a 14" Remington 870 (yes, it was legalCJATE wrote:do you mean open? if yours have removable chokes, you should not shoot with out one in place,txinvestigator wrote:Nope. It is the shotgun pictured in the shotgun thread. 20" barrel, no choke.
if yours does not have removable, then It's choked at the factory, and will say on the side of the barrel. I find it hard to believe that shot at 3yds came out of an open choke?
I have done similar tests with turkey loads, and have paid A LOT of money to get a 6" group at 15 yards, super full turkey chokes ect...
), and observed the same kind of shot pattern. Open choke, 00 Buck, at three yards, and the hole in the target looked like it came from a slug. At 7 yards, you could make out where each pellet hit, but just barely; it was pretty close to one ragged hole. At 15 yards, you could have covered the pattern with a paper plate.I have no difficulty believing those shot pattens; they seem quite typical.