We see posts fairly frequently concerning loading shot for use in a pistol. My standard response is that the loads are ineffective because the rifling spins the shot charge into a torus in short order.
I had a picture of such a pattern that had been shot with a Moisin-Nagant pistol
I lost that picture and decided to make/take another.
I used a .44 mag case, a .44 Speer shot hull and #9 shot.
I tried it today, fully expecting a donut shaped pattern.
I got something else.
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That is a 90% pattern - at five yards from a Ruger BH.
Go figure.
Peye