2025 NORTHERN SxS

[Mike of the Mountain]

Can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve been asked “What chokes should I put in my gun?” before guys would go onto our course. My reply, “Choke is irrelevant, focus is important.” I don’t see guys changing them from one station to the next very often anymore. I recommend that if someone has screw-in-chokes, LM/IM and leave them in. Excellent choke combo and it takes all the distractions out of the process.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

Can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve been asked “What chokes should I put in my gun?” before guys would go onto our course. My reply, “Choke is irrelevant, focus is important.” I don’t see guys changing them from one station to the next very often anymore. I recommend that if someone has screw-in-chokes, LM/IM and leave them in. Excellent choke combo and it takes all the distractions out of the process.

Before I started shooting the Bullshit game (sporting clays) I was very much into open choke guns for skeet -dove - quail . I will say I liked tight choked guns for trap then and still do . However I feel a heck of a lot more comfortable with maybe to much choke then thinking I don’t have enough . I seem to shoot in a more smooth manner with a tight choked gun at sporting , if the guns open choked I tend to try and shoot to quick and jump at the bird not swing in a smooth more precise manner .

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

Daryl, I don’t think there will be a Team Fabbri for the Manufacturer’s Cup.

As much as I find choke tubes to be a waste of $$, at least an adjustable comb has benefits and it is much less expensive that having a new fitted stock made for a gun. A properly fit gun with put the bbls where you need them to be, negating the need for changing chokes. Just sayin’.

I actually shoot with two brothers who own, I think 5 Fabbri's between them. If I could talk them into coming I'm sure I could slap together a team Fabbri.

[Kevin McCormack]

Like Mike said, I don't see them changing chokes between stations any more. Used to love the guys with the hand-held Dremel tool-like electric choke wrenches whirring them in and out to get the teal or the rabbit at the next station. Then there were always the times when their batteries ran dead - panic at the disco!

[Mike of the Mountain]

UPDATE....

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack

Like Mike said, I don't see them changing chokes between stations any more. Used to love the guys with the hand-held Dremel tool-like electric choke wrenches whirring them in and out to get the teal or the rabbit at the next station. Then there were always the times when their batteries ran dead - panic at the disco!

I’ve got a friend that lives less than ten miles from me that shoots NSCA stuff and usually places in the senior class concurrents at the bigger shoots . He shoots Kolar guns and tube sets . Anyway he told me he typically shoots M/IM at everything . Granted I’m sure there are some rare instances he might change chokes but I think he said his barrels and insert tubes are normally M/IM out the gate .

[matt koepnick]

My last M21 Win came with fixed Factory Lite Mod and loose Full constrictions. I was amazed at how many birds at the clays course simply vanished when hit. And I made regular hits on birds I would miss before. Not to mention they are killer on those darn Rabbits. Made me a believer in tighter choked guns.
My old mentor Mark Douglas from local Vintagers always used IM in both barrels of his Perazzi Double, explaining there was less chance of a hole in the pattern for clays to slip thru. He generally won our shoots.
Mattly

[Mike of the Mountain]

Matt, we like our “men’s department“ chokes.

[Randy Roberts]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

Matt, we like our “men’s department“ chokes.

Good one, I've heard that somewhere before