Id be interested to see how that, the hornady #4 buck with versa tite wad and the hornady 00 with versa tite was compare to each other. In my experience, the smaller the pellets the larger the patter in standard loads. Flight control and versa tite are always tighter. And the Remington managed recoil OO patterns a little tighter than standard OO. The federal 9 pellet OO patterns tightest for me out of the standard OO buck loads (not including versa tite, flight control, or reduced recoil)