Quoted: I really doubt you could tell the differance between the 2. Maybe your pattern is 30" insted of 32" at 25 yards?
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True, but if you are taking a 25 yard shot at someone who is smaller than your shot pattern, you need to know where the misses will be going.
My 870P-Max has an Improved Cyl. When I first got it, I shot 12, 00 rnds into a silhouette target at thirty yrds. I only had one pellet miss, which was high and to the right--away from the rest of the hits. I believe this was an anomaly, possibly due to a flat spot on the pellet. All the other shots would have been kill shots and had a tight pattern. I shot the at the same distance with an older "un"improved cylinder bore with a much different result. The patterns weren't as tight and there were about 12-15 pellets that did not hit the sillhouette portion of the target.
From this, I still held my belief that 00 buckshot should be used at 25 yards and in while slugs can be used up to 100 yards without a problem. I would go with the improved cylinder. It is better to have it when you need it than to want it when you need it. Sorry for being so long-winded