>>916508Also, I would have loved to have all three, and a skeet barrel as well, but money was tight. Besides there is always other costs, like decoys, gas to get to the hunting spot, and shells, etc...
Think of it as IC short, Mod medium, Full long range.
You are looking for your effective distance where you have a big pattern, but yet you are still hitting your intended target (bird, rabbit, squirrel, whatever) with several pellets for a quick clean kill. Once your pattern spreads to a point that you might only hit with a single BB or two, or perhaps even miss even though you shot a good shot, you are just hoping to get lucky.
I really recommend anyone new to shotgunning, to shoot several shells into paper or a cardboard box at a few distances, they think they might be shooting at game, just to learn what is happening down range to their pattern.
