With just the bead front sight and the shallow groove in the receiver the modified choke barrel printed decent groups of ~4" just a tad left of point of aim at 60 yards which is about the maximum distance of the shots I get here. It would consistently put all shots into a paper plate at 75-80 yards if I held a bit to the right. The load I settled on was 85 gr 2fg GOEX compressed a bit, then a 1/8" over powder wad, a 1/2" lubed fiber wad, then another 1/8" over powder wad with the 1oz. rifled slug on top all held in with a roll crimp in a 2.75" Fiocchi paper hull. (Chamber has been checked and it's 2 3/4")
This past Sunday afternoon, with just about 1/2 hour of light left, this little 6 pointer walked out at what I later stepped off at 118 paces. I knew he was a bit farther than I had planned for so I held the bead high on his shoulder and fired. It was dead calm so the smoke hung there and I couldn't see if he was down or not but a moment later he stumbled off to the left and dropped. The slug entered right behind the ribs on his right side and exited out his left shoulder, so he was quartering away from me at the shot.
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The 110 year old Winchester and good old black powder did a fine job.