I fired 5 of the Federals that I shared above this evening, and they all shot no problems. I used the one open cylinder/bore pump.
At 20 yards, patterned really good onto the styrofoam plate.
30 yards, sucked pretty bad. While there was probably maybe 25 or 30 pellets covering the paper plate, would've not likely killed a squirrel. Was just too spread out.
40 yards, actually shot about as well as it did at 30. There were likely enough pellets concentrated in the middle of the plate that I would've killed a squirrel, I'm going to say at best, the pattern was adequate from 25 yards and closer. Anything 30 yards and over, would've just been too random and sporadic to trust at those distance.
I kept the paper plates. I may post them up later if I take pictures of them. If not, I'll just post them after I get to shoot the handloads to see how they do to have something to compare. It supposed to rain all weekend, but I'm going to try to go with some of my boys this Sunday if we can. If not, I'll update it when I get to shoot them.