Marrakai, thanks!!

Funny you mention Mythbusters. The Bhoyo and I said the same thing while we were at the range!

I should have mentioned...the Full choke was established in prior testing to give tightest patterns with this Fiocchi load, which, I might add, it "shouldn't", just as you say. What the Italians did with it I do not know. I've shot it in three guns now and two favor full, the other modified.

I have some Eley SSG and a variety of other buck, too, including some 20-year-old Swartklip SSSG I kept in my Beretta 424 double I kept next to the bed on the farm I lived on in Natal, so maybe there's more to come...

I like your idea about staging a test in 5 yard {or meter} increments. That sounds like a great idea.

On the tests I shot years ago, I had a gun that would place 4 pellets in an 8.5x11 inch sheet of typing paper consistently at 50 yards. I considered that gun good for fifty {Win 3", 00, 15 pellets}. But after 50 even it completely fell off, meaning the predictability of getting pellets in that arbitrary "kill zone" just didn't exist. The problem was, that one or two pellets would hit inside a deer-sized target, meaning the fellow that used it might have assumed he missed when in fact the critter was carry lead in a ham or gut.

Just like "neck shooters" around here who claim that a neck shot either kills or misses entirely...