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Originally Posted by Daryl Corona
I can't comment on a the reproduction chokes but I learned over many years of shooting 28 gauge guns that you are much better off ballistically with tighter chokes.
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Exactly, precisely right!! Also depending on the make and vintage of the gun, certain ones LOVE certain shot sizes. I owned 2 Parker 28 gauges, both early Meriden guns, one 26" and the othere 28". They both loved 7 1/2 shot, "liked" #8s, cared less for #9s and hated anything larger than #7s.
A Parker Repro 28 I owned for a while choked SK1 & SK2 didn't particularly "like" any conventional sized shot but would pattern #10 shot handloads I "put up" for railbirds like broadcasting tobacco seeds. An absolutely lovely little R15 Darne 28 gauge I shot for a while with 25" barrels was so deadly using #8s I was invited to "not bring it" on several game farm quail hunts; the same gun would homogenize skeet targets from any station with standard #9 loads.
Now I'm down to one Belgian Browning Superposed 28" Pigeon Grade 28 bored M&F, one 28" Citori 28 with Invector chokes, and one AH Parker 26" 28 (It's a 16 ga. 0 frame Briley full-length tubed to 28 ga with their choke tubes because the Damascus barrels are so rotten inside they're unsafe to shoot). Decisions, decisions........