Chokes Revisited (and Revisited, and Revisited...)

[Aaron Beck]

I dont see choke as a solution for missing so much as contributing to the results of a hit. Did the clay get smoked or just shatter? just a chip? Did the bird have two broken wingtips when the dog brought it back, or was it a bloody pulp BEFORE the wirehair got it? Most examples are much subtler and I think paper can show some of that but as pointed out, its really not whats happening in the real world.

[Mike of the Mountain]

“Got that: “…a cylinder bore will alter the direction and spread less than a choked bore.” “

That’s correct depending on how you read the statement. Cylinder choke is the widest spread. No constriction, wide spread and as distance increases, so does the size of that pattern. The tighter the choke the farther the pattern stays “close” and is dense enough to crush a target or cancel a game bird’s flight.

[stumpstalker]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

“Got that: “…a cylinder bore will alter the direction and spread less than a choked bore.” “

That’s correct depending on how you read the statement. Cylinder choke is the widest spread. No constriction, wide spread and as distance increases, so does the size of that pattern. The tighter the choke the farther the pattern stays “close” and is dense enough to crush a target or cancel a game bird’s flight.

Mike:

A full reading of the impromptu discussion on some conjectured anomalous effects of choke boring vs. those of true cylinder suggest to me a different conclusion. That may be just me –- I have been puzzling over the points made ever since they arose on 7-21-21.

The digression was in the thread started by Jay announcing the purchase of a pre-choke era cylinder bore Parker hammer gun.

https://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33795

Russell