Picked up a good used one last week at the local shop. It has a 26" barrel and a supposedly full choked barrel. I took it out this past weekend and patterned 2 different loads at 30 and 40 yards. Needless to say I wasn't really all that impressed with the patterns at 40 yards. I did not count pellets, but the whole pattern seemed fairly consistent, just a little too "wide". I was hoping to make a 50-60 yard turkey/coyote gun out of it. Do any of you guys have any experience with these things and what are the loads you recommend? I am not a handloader so it will have to be factory offernings. The 2 I have tried so far are the Winchester 3.5" 2oz. 6's and the Federal 2 oz. 5's. I want to stick with lead or something similar since I won't be doing any waterfowl hunting with it so steel is out.
