<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Patterned my sx2 yesterday. Patterned Winchester super x drylock 12 ga. 3.5" BB HV, Fed 3.5" HV, Fed 3" HV and rem Sprtsman 3" standard vel. all in BB. The 3.5" loads totally stunk 40 yards was way high and left. It looked like the center was blown out. The gun will shoot the 3" Rem sportsman and 3" fed HV in BB just fine at 40 yrds, nice even pattern about 70% in 30" circle. The best results for both loads were with the factory modified choke. I tried the imp. cyl. and the patterns were what you would expect, a little less dense at 40 wit the 3" but VERY sparse with the 3.5's.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Anyone know why this would be happening? it doesn't seem to make sense to me. I suspect if the higher velocity were the culprit the 3" fed HV would pattern poor also. Could this be a wad problem? There were small marks in the base of the 3.5" wads that looked like the base had expanded unevenly. One was even torn a little.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Brian</P>