 So recently I did several episodes with Jim Mueller. He does competition chokes, hunting chokes, stuff like that. In fact, I got one of them in my hand right now. One of the main ones that I'm going to be testing today is the H2O Decoy Choke from Muller Chokes in my 20 gauge Franke Affinity III. One of the things that he was telling me in that episode is how to properly pattern and I know there is ways and I usually don't do it that way just for lack of time or ammo or whatever. But this time I'm going to go through the whole gimmick with this gun. One of the things that I'm going to do that it probably causes a lot of contradiction is shoot my 20 gauge from 15 yards without a choke. And one of the things that I've heard that's actually false and I've heard this my whole life and you probably have too is that you cannot shoot your shotgun without a choke in it because it will damage the threads. From what Jim Mueller told me it's absolutely impossible to do that. There's no way that the pellets or the BBs can move 90 degrees as they're coming out at the speed they're coming out of the barrel and mess up your chokes. And he said you know if you do that a couple hundred times it may be harder to get the choke in there but it's only because a carbon buildup has nothing to do with the threads or damage. So the proper way to just see if my shotgun is actually shooting properly straight from the barrel is take the choke out and shoot it out 15 yards five shells. So I'm going to start out shooting five shells no choke 15 yards added pattern board that's 30 inches and that's actually from Chase Waterfowl and he sent those to me to use and I really want to say I appreciate that man thank you so much and if you guys want to check them out I believe it's chasewaterfowl.com a great looking paper with the mallard on it and then the 30 inch circle and then also the quadrants on it so you'll see that here in a second. But anyways after we do we check the shotgun we're going to shoot it again standing shoulder mounted from 15 yards shoot it five times to see what kind of error there is and just the way I mount if it needs to be shimmed for me and then after that I'm going to put the choke in and he's convinced me that I need to use the decoy you can go listen to that on podcast I don't want to take all the time to talk about that on here but there's a reason for that and we've done multiple episodes go check it out the MVM show after I do everything that I need to do to pattern this then I'm going to go back to my shooting distance and I'm probably just going to do 30 yards and see what that looks like if everything is how it needs to be if I don't need to shim nothing or whatever one more thing then one of the things that he said is you need to stick with the same ammo I always shoot the heavy Bismuth 3 inch 6 shot one and an 8 shot charge moving at 1400 feet per second so that's what I'll be testing with today and that's what I'm going to stick with so I'm going to get this dialed in where this gun's a killing machine more than it already is so let's get started 15 yards no choke on arrest shot number two shot number three shot number four that is money right there so as you see without the choke this gun at 15 yards is center punched it's not shooting high it's not doing nothing crazy like some prior patterns I did it was definitely the choke that was a resting position so now I'm going to pull this paper down change it out put a new one up and I'm saving it well we can look at it more later and now I'm going to stand shouldering the gun at 15 yards I'll do for sure three maybe four shots on that so let's get started no choke still 15 yards standing shouldered to make sure my point of impact and aim is lined up for me shot two shot three I'll do shot four now this I'll be four shots I'm gonna stop there still looks pretty centered honestly so now I'm seeing it was the choke what do you guys think comment down below you guys if you watched the last pattern video you seen I'm gonna zoom a little bit more for the smaller because these do 30 inch 20 inch and 10 I mean that's no different than the other one in my opinion it's heavy in the middle but you seen on the last video my choke made it at 30 yards made this gun look like it shot way high like 90 percent over now that being said it was a smaller target but I didn't have the density in the middle so I'm gonna go change this target out now we're gonna put the choke in hi guys I've shot nine shells with no choke threads only here's the Mueller decoy choke gonna throw it in threads are gonna be all messed up now oh look what do you know the stuff we've been told over the years guys is just so funny to me but anyways screwed right in no problem as you see there so I got the decoy choke in Jim Mueller you can check him out at Mueller Chokes by the way everything's good my barrel's good because we shot it no excuses no chokes nothing messing it up the barrel square the barrel is good for me shoulder I don't need to shim nothing I'll do nothing so anything that happens now is straight up a choke so let's do it shot one rested what are we gonna get here shot two it's looking good so far shot three and my shoulder's getting sore shot four this will be we'll just do this as our last one not shooting right not shooting left not shooting high not shooting low let's go my goodness that looks good I mean it is 15 yards but look how full that is I mean obviously that's it's a little shocked as we see it the 15 yards rested with the decoy choke is phenomenal now that is 15 yards and you say okay that doesn't matter well I did some other tests with some other chokes in the past and you could see a major deviation even at 15 yards but anyways now I'm not going to do standing I don't need to I already did it without the choke in so and I've been texting and talking to Jim Moller as I do this make sure I'm doing exactly right so now I'm going to move back to 25 yards and then I'm going to do 35 yards which is you know shooting distances of where I mainly shoot my birds and that's the key is what he told me is it's always about how far you're shooting if you're shooting them past that use his passing choke you know 40 yards plus but I mean that's something I don't really do ever so anyways that's why we're shooting at the distances so I'm going to go back to 25 yards I'm going to shoot four or five probably five at 25 yards and then four or five at 35 yards now we are on the pattern test this is the actual pattern testing with this choke so let's check it out all right this is 25 yards decoy choke rested kind of pumped kind of excited kind of nervous to see what I what I see right here I don't wonder what it's going to look like shot two shot three shot four it's shot five uh yeah I would say that looks pretty good boys stay tuned at the end I'll video them a closer up talking about it phenomenal phenomenal is the only word I can say with that pattern unbelievable honestly I cannot believe what that looks like so now I'm back at 35 yards I can't blame no nobody or nothing this season with that pattern I've also always wanted to 50-50 I don't really like the little bit of a high personally I like putting it right on them now that being said I am putting the bead right under the crosshairs just for your guys's reference but anyways I'm back at 35 yards gonna do five shots again five shots at 35 yards rested shot number one shot number three shot number four shot number five all right guys it took me so long to count these hits I literally been here for 45 minutes trying to count on both the 25 and the 35 yard targets I haven't shot nothing and all my patterning that even comes close to this number one my gun's not shooting high itself it was the choke prior number two I've always wanted like a 50-50 pattern I'm not going to say this is perfectly 50-50 but it's pretty close because if you look in each sector like that top left quadrant you got 108 in there 179 and then 116 that's 108 they're exactly the same 50 158 that's really close to the left side 98 in the center one and then you come on the bottom it's definitely I'll just you just can't look yourself but it's a little heavier on top but barely like not much at all honestly because actually be looking at two bottom 20 inch circles it's pretty identical to the top two 20 inch circles so that being said you need 70 to 100 pellets on a duck to reliably hit the vitals I'm getting 258.6 guys per shot in a 30 inch circle that's nasty and it's so even and so it looks so good I never I haven't had anything like that that's five shots I had um oh man I can't remember what it was do the math on it I think it was like 12 or 1300 and then you divide that by five and it came up with 256 258.6 pellets per shot in a 30 inch circle insane let's look at the 35 yards so again you need 70 to 100 inside a 30 inch circle to reliably hit vitals on a duck at 35 yards guys 162 pellets inside a three inch circle riding sloppy I was just trying to hurry and get this done but look at this look at how clean this is insane that's at 35 yards with the decoy choke so that's all there is to say I don't I honestly don't have nothing to add to this that's phenomenal and to know that at 35 yards you still have that many inside a 30 inch circle you're you have so much room for error to still kill that bird and then shooting business on top of that because of the the density of it is just going to go right through them so that's it I'm done that's what I'm shooting this season bob line I was so set on getting the passing choke and trying that one but after seeing what this decoy does I've been Texan Jim Mueller on the molar on the side and he said buy buy those standards and how many pellets you're getting in the 30 inch circle you could definitely that could go out to 40 45 yards no problem not that I'm taking those shots on average but if I needed to I wanted to birds dead on the water are wounded on the water I can take that shot so phenomenal give this video a thumbs up if you guys enjoyed this I can't do it any better of a pattern test than I just did right now that's the best one I've ever done on this channel because a professional told me how to do it I know there are others have but I really want to take the time and do it and make sure my gun wasn't messed up or something wasn't off and it wasn't I highly highly highly suggest you guys check out the nvm show podcast listen to part one part two is even better than part one and then I got a part three and four out and probably out by the time you watch this all be out so go check those out give this video a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you like duck hunting and pattern videos like this and thanks for watching we'll see on the next one