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The Dallas Morning News Ray Sasser column: You'll gain from shotshell pattern testing pain.(Column)

Byline: Ray Sasser

Apr. 1--I spent an hour recently in the masochistic exercise of shooting 3-inch 12-gauge turkey loads at paper targets. The process is called "patterning." It's necessary if you wish to determine which shotgun shell performs best in your particular shotgun. The patterning test was prompted by the arrival of Federal's new Heavyweight Mag-Shok turkey shells. They're loaded with an alloy that's touted as 35 percent denser than lead. I tested the new Federal shotshells against leftover Remington Hevi-Shot loads, which I've considered the benchmark shotshell for turkeys, ducks or geese. Remington no longer loads Hevi-Shot, but it's now available under ...

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