Shooting down shotgun myths

I plan to investigate and then verify or debunk several shotguning myths. These myths pertain to patterns, chokes, shot size, barrel length etc. I hope to investigate relationships such as:

  1. velocity vs. pattern size
  2. velocity vs. choke
  3. others as they interest me

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Click on the links below to investigate subjects of interest.

Background and plan

Background

Testing Method

Testing method

Velocity vs. pattern size

Velocity vs pattern --- Results--- True that pattern size increases with shot velocity

Velocity vs. Barrel length

Barrel length --- Results -- False that velocity increases with barrel length

Velocity vs. Choke

Choke vs Velocity --- Results -- True that velocity increases with increased choke

Controlling the pattern