Definitely....and again.
However, you originally posted patterns and said nothing re POA vs POI...until now...
Have always thought patterning essentially a waste of time...but POI is something else altogether....
99% of your shooting has been clay. 99% of my shooting has been game or pests. You would be one that would use #6 shot with cylinder choke on canada geese going for the "head" shot. I have always said POA vs POI . GFY. City boy. City boy.
Your experience is showing...And good chance I have knocked more Birds out of the sky then you....by more than a little. Maybe not, but that wasn't the issue...
Started out in Tidal, Pa...look up the population. Then moved to a small Pa mill town and grew up there...What else you have that is wrong and Bullsheet....Keep going, it is revealing on a couple levels....
Addition: Looked up the population and it isn't even listed....The post office did close however...........in 1940.