I pattern, hunt with and load a lot of buckshot. Full choke almost always throws the tightest patterns. The factory full usually does pretty good. I have 2 guns that I put Buck kicker full chokes in and have patterned 3 more for other folks. They all shoot pretty dang good.

The load I hunt with is a 16 pellet 00 load (true 00, not the .32 cal pellets most manufacturers call 00) out of a Benelli SBE 2. It will hold 20" 60 yard patterns and will kill deer that far and a little farther.

I'm also working on a 14 pellet 000 load that I think will out shoot the 00 load.

It might be lonely at the top, but it's a bitch at the bottom.