Here we’ll aim to cut through the controversy and break down three different patterning processes and their applications. It’s important to differentiate pattern analysis vs evaluating point of impact ...

Most hunters and many sporting-clays shooters prefer a gun that centers the pattern on the point of aim, giving a 50/50 pattern that prints half above and half below the aiming mark, and a sight ...

An exceptionally short and light shotgun—at 37 3/4" long and weighing ... all of the projectiles remained within a 21" circle of the point of aim, with the average spread for 10 shells measuring ...

and it did so with relatively consistent distribution around the point of aim, too. From the gun’s 28" barrel, the lightweight, yet pellet-packed, Fasteel load achieved a scorching 1572 f.p.s ...