Early and Rough, but still a Parker…

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

I had a 16 ga. Lifter that had been cut back from 28” to 24” so it effectively had no choke.
But that little gun could really account for itself on 35, 40 and longer yardage clay targets. I was always anazed by how this gun would smash targets waay out there.

Seems to me I recall that gun pretty well. Never should have..... oh hell.

"An object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by an unbalanced force."

Newton's First Law says to me that a cylinder bore will alter the direction and spread less than a choked bore. I have patterned a couple guns that have had their barrels cut to an extent that NO choke exists. I was amazed to see that the pattern is very much tighter than a lightly choked bore, up to a point where air resistance also begins to affect it.

[stumpstalker]

Edgar:

I am trying to understand this effect.

QUOTE: ”…a cylinder bore will alter the direction and spread less than a choked bore…”

Can this mean that the “unbalanced force” that is absent with a cylinder bore gun as Dean’s be a tight choke constriction, that produces in comparison a diminishing-return, shot-confusing, "ricocheting”, dispersal of ejecta from the bore?

Russell