28 ga Repro

[Wilmurt]

POI was checked and there’s no issue

[Wild Skies]

If the POI is hitting where your aiming, your .007/.018 chokes are, at least in my experience, sufficient and effective at any reasonable distance for a 28ga. with proper loads for the upland bird hunting I do.

If it were me, I would do a quite a bit of target shooting, i.e. skeet, 5-stand and sporting clays before giving up on them.

[Wilmurt]

My issue is not with the 26" IC .007/Mod .018 chokes, but the 28" Mod .020/Full .045 chokes and, yes I've shot about as much clays as possible to figure this out too.

[Wild Skies]

Originally Posted by Tom Jay

I have a 28 gauge Repro 2 barrel set. Bird hunting I can't hit anything moving or stationary (slight exaggeration but not far off) with the 26" IC/Mod barrel, but I hit almost everything with the 28" M/F. Is it the my physical mechanics of using a longer length barrel or the tighter chokes that give me better results with the 28" M/F barrel? The down side of the 28" M/F is I obliterate close birds with the Mod barrel and thinking of having it opened to IC or Light Mod.

Tom, the above is what you wrote. I've read and re-read it several times, and each time I read it I come away understanding you "can't hit anything moving or stationary (slight exaggeration but not far off) with the IC/Mod barrel, but I hit almost everything with the 28" M/F." (The words in quotations are your words, not mine). I thought it was the IC/Mod set of barrels you couldn't hit anything with, I'm sorry if I misunderstood.

[Wilmurt]

Don't need to be confusing. I still can't hit anything with the 26" IC/M. with the gunsmith's assistance I believe the IC/M barrels are choked correctly and there's no issue with the POI. Also had the gun stock measured and compared to my 20ga. Repro and found the 28ga. stock measurements to be similar to the 20ga. As my father always told me about my shooting ills that "its not the arrow but the Indian".

Since I hit more clays and live birds with the 28" M/F barrel than the 26" IC/M my gunsmith has summized that my shooting technique is different with each barrel. It seems I swing faster and not as smoothly with the shorter barrels than with the 28" barrels. The added weight of the 28" helps my swing too. I am having the 28" M/F barrels opened up to more conventional 28ga. chokes of .013"/.027" than the current chokes of .020"/.045. I'll be keeping the 26" barrels in the case.

[Bill Murphy]

My friend, Daryl, obviously subscribes to my philosophy concerning tight chokes. "Learn to shoot." I have seen Daryl shoot and "he don't need no open chokes".

[Wilmurt]

What should the constrictions be for 28ga. Repro 28" M/F barrels? Briley choke chart says M/F should be .015/.024. Had my 28ga. 28" M/F barrels measured and the results were right .020 and left .045. Isn't this tight? I previously mentioned somewhere in this post I was obliterating pheasants over a pointing dog with the right Mod barrel under 20 yards. Could this tight choke be why or what am I missing? What measurements should 28" M/F barrels have?

[Wild Skies]

My 28ga. 28" Repro's factory-original M/F chokes are .014/.034. I love them for 5-Stand and Sporting Clays, but aren't my first choice for much of the other close-range shooting that I do, such as grouse/woodcock and Skeet. For grouse/woodcock I'm shooting the 26" IC/M at .006/.016 and for Skeet I find the 26" Q1/Q2 chokes at .004/.007 about perfect. I've got a 2-bbl. set and a single barrel set that all three barrels sets are interchangeable between the two 28ga. Repros.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Tom Jay

What should the constrictions be for 28ga. Repro 28" M/F barrels? Briley choke chart says M/F should be .015/.024. Had my 28ga. 28" M/F barrels measured and the results were right .020 and left .045. Isn't this tight? I previously mentioned somewhere in this post I was obliterating pheasants over a pointing dog with the right Mod barrel under 20 yards. Could this tight choke be why or what am I missing? What measurements should 28" M/F barrels have?

I have never heard of a 28ga. choked at .045". .021" is considered by Briley to be a full choke in a 28.
It's no wonder you were 'obliterating' game. You could shoot through a Cheerio and not break it.

[tom tutwiler]

Certainly at lot of what one needs it based on the game one hunts most of the time. Since 80% of my shooting is Woodcock over Sophie, the Q1 and Q2 chokes should be the bee's knees out of my 28 gauge Parker Repro. FWIW, I currently shoot a Fox Sterly 20 gauge with chokes of .004 and .014 and I have destroyed Woodcock with the first barrel when centered at the normal distance of circa 15 yards. Where I hunt there is often zero chance of getting a second shot because of thick cover and even it I do that second shot will be max of 25 yards. For those who like to eat Woodcock a centered bird even when using open chokes at close range often turns into a skeet station 7 outgoing. An explosion of feathers and the dog trying to figure out what pieces to pick up.