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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Master Carper" data-source="post: 3695806" data-attributes="member: 15527">It's a whole lotta fun!Me personally, I like the longer barrels for the increased velocity and longer sight plane.I have shot these same loads in my 30" 870 barrel, but patterns were not worth a poot much much past 40 yards.With my 34" barrel, I can get 100% patterns a little past 60 yards, which is why I can stretch the distance on it.My 30" barrel will keep a 100% pattern at 40 yards, but will start opening up pretty good after that.With a 1 1/8 load of magnum #2 lead shot, there is exactly 100 pellets per load.At the velocity I am pushing these loads, non buffered loads were a little disappointing, but still good to around 60 yards or so. With the addition of buffer though, patterns tightened right on up and became much more uniform.As far as your 21" barrel goes, I have no earthly idea how well it would pattern. I had to shoot a LOT of different loads in my barrel to be able to get a "good" load, then I went through a LOT of different choke tubes before I found one that gave me the long range patterns I was looking for, that made long range crow shooting possible.</blockquote>