In the best patterns you’ll see a high density of strikes ... Below 80 hits, you’ll see fairly large gaps between pellets and risk wounding a bird, so you’d have to shoot at closer ranges when hunting ...

It’s critical that your shotgun, choke, and load deliver enough pellets to the bird to kill it cleanly, as a crippled pheasant can elude even the best dogs sometimes. You need a pattern that is ...

Birds like hawks, kites, herons and cormorants can cast pellets too, says Eres Gomez ... You would be lucky if you did.” For best results, comb the ground under active roosting sites or nest ...

Adam Moore Before tabulating pellet strikes, we first found the hold point on the target for best pattern results. For instance, the SBE3 has a Burris FastFire II red-dot, so we put that dot right on ...