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King Brown
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Posted: Mon Jan 10th, 2005 12:52 am |
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We've been shooting for years and decades. From all our experience, what chokes would you choose if you had only one side-by-side, any gauge. Mine would be WS2 and LM.
(The subject should be One double, what chokes? Not my name. I couldn't edit the subject---or didn't know how to. Sorry.) Last edited on Mon Jan 10th, 2005 12:56 am by King Brown
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John Davis
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Posted: Mon Jan 10th, 2005 01:38 pm |
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| My choice would be IC/IM. John D.
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Jeff Mulliken
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Posted: Mon Jan 10th, 2005 02:16 pm |
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John Davis wrote: My choice would be IC/IM. John D.
IM, light Mod. SxS's are at thier best for close in shooting.
I love my FULL/FULL choked gun for trap etc but the truth is that I could shoot another gun just as well on the long stuff, but for close in I want my fast handling open choked Parker gun.
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Posted: Mon Jan 10th, 2005 02:59 pm |
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After careful consideration I would prefer CYL/IMPCYL because most of my shots are close, grouse and woodcock in heavy cover. I would, necessarily, have to give up pass shooting of waterfowl and stick to decoyed birds. But my first love is upland birds so the choice was a foregone conclusion.
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rich anderson
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Posted: Mon Jan 10th, 2005 03:55 pm |
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| As I hunt mostly upland birds over a pointer my choice would be skt/skt in a 20 bore.
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Dave Miles
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Posted: Mon Jan 10th, 2005 04:26 pm |
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Rich,
On a skeet gun, are they normally skeet#1 and skeet#2 ?
for example on a 16 gauge, choked .004" and .010" And isn't skeet #2, about the same thing as what some people call a light modified?
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Destry Hoffard
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Posted: Mon Jan 10th, 2005 04:47 pm |
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Mine would have to be a 30 inch cylinder and modified 12 bore. You could use it for birds but it would work for ducks over decoys too.
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rich anderson
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Posted: Mon Jan 10th, 2005 04:53 pm |
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The skeet 1 and skeet 2 got the designation as the 1st bird is going away therefor skeet 1 and the second incoming hence skeet 2. Math was never my strong point and skeet chokes work well for me in the uplands no matter how many thousandth they are .
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Posted: Mon Jan 10th, 2005 05:14 pm |
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| I use a 16 gage choked .005 and .015. I belive this to be IC- Mod. It works very well for upland game which is what I do the most. Larry
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Posted: Tue Jan 11th, 2005 12:24 am |
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| My favorite is SK/IC over pointing dogs in heavy cover. Here in IL we only have 5 days left in our quail season!
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Doug Gaudet
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Posted: Tue Jan 11th, 2005 02:03 am |
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| I would have to go with the sk/ic being an upland hunter with a good dog. Now the big question. Since the old gals were usually tightly choked should we modify our Parkers to our ideal or shoot them the way they were manufactured?
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Posted: Tue Jan 11th, 2005 02:13 am |
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Bob Vilmur
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Posted: Tue Jan 11th, 2005 02:13 am |
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King
-Fair Question.
I'd go with the Improved and Modified selection that several other persons have made. I'd furthur posit that my chokes would be bored to give this level of performance with #8 to #6 shot. I'd want this because -- since you're limiting us to one set of chokes and I assume we're not talking choke tubes -- I'd want the that boring on the smalller sizes because I'd want to be able to play around with larger shot sizes and buffer and shot protectors, and . . . .?
I have not experimented much with bismuth yet. But if good hard lead shot suggests the way, I'd bet that these selected chokes would perform in a tighter fashion with, say Bismuth #4s and perhaps #2s. With this larger purpose in mind, I'd want 28" barrels - - more versatility. And, going the other way, with components such as Ballistic Products "Extreme" shot separators and #9s and #8s, I think I could do a credible job at skeet.
The last shotgun my Dad hunted with before he hung it up at 87, was an 1100 3" mag choked modified ( this was in the late '80s/early 90s). I think when he made this selection he was taking knowledge to the field than what was not based on someone else's opinion. He was a handloader. He had read Sell and, later, Roster. He hunted twice a week, season in, season out. He was a decoy hunter, but hunting federal refuges the way he did, when a snow or honker would overfly his blind or area during the day, such geese were fair game. In these last years his load of choice for decoyed ducks in 2 3/4" hulls was 1 1/4 oz of #5s. But there were always a dozen 3 inchers with 1 5/8s of #3s or #2s stuck away for bigger challenges. We were into buffer at this time and dad noted that with larger shot sizes the use of buffer really bumped patterns well beyond modified. We regularly would enjoy smoked snow goose or honker in those days. Our waterfowl "jerkey", as we put it.
So improved and modified it is for me for the reasons noted above.
Best wishes
Bob Vilmur
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Posted: Tue Jan 11th, 2005 03:15 pm |
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| I shoot them just they way they are. In my skeet gun I'll use modern ammo when shooting sporting clays or 5 stand as I have found the plastic shot cup tends to tighten the pattern some. When its hunting time I use Gamebore with the traditional felt wads that produce more open patterns. On a gun with full choke it will be spreader loads and the original choke will remain in tact.
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