Re: [FMA] Shotgun spread, was Re: [OFFICIAL] FMA playtest version

	Howdy!

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Voivode Shrike (a.k.a. Ryan) wrote:

>     I'll tell you what, I will be travelling home this weekend and I
will
> get out my brothers double barrel 12 Gauge and my single barrel pump
12
> gauge and I will shoot up some sheets of plywood with various loads at
> various ranges this weekend and tell you what happens. That way we can
see
> what its effect really is.  I will measure them for everyone's
benefit.

	Keen, although spread patterns have been published and are
available for a wide variety of chokes and shot.  But first hand testing
is always fun.... :)

> However I will not be able to test the sawed off properties as my
family and
> I are law-abiding citizens and sawed-offs are illegal in the U.S.
(well at
> least under a certain length anyway, 32" or so I think, I may be
wrong, I've
> never wanted to ruin one of my guns that way).

	Ruin a gun is right...

>     I am basing my ideas on what I have seen hunting, I have seen a
deer
> that was shot with one 00 buckshot round have hits in the head and
chest
> region at ~40 yards from the side.

	I have never been hunting with a shotgun.  My experience is from
modeling ballistics and wound patterning for Medical Examiner's offices
in
Rhode Island and Florida.

> Hopefully not too graphic for anyone,

	:)

	Ken