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Offline dougk

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Prefered Choke for Drilling or Combo gun?
« on: July 28, 2007, 12:17:38 AM »
One of my combos has a screw in choke the other has a fixed choke.  With the SxS shotguns I prefer fixed chokes but I am leaning to screw in chokes for the combo guns.  The screw in choke has a rifled slug choke, ported turkey choke and prefer, M and F factory chokes. 

What do you prefer?

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Re: Prefered Choke for Drilling or Combo gun?
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2007, 01:27:12 PM »
I'm a big fan of  ic/mod in a double. when I only have one barrel for shot , I usually go with mod. and like a back up choke of ic in my bag or vest. when I use a full choke I tend to shoot too quick and ruin meat. That's just me though.

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Re: Prefered Choke for Drilling or Combo gun?
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2007, 03:47:30 AM »
  When i was a kid, i liked all the choke i could get.... You needed it with those paper case shells, but then ammo mfg's figured out how to make better ammo.  I remember putting a WW Mark 5 in my double's left bbl.  and using it for my "long" shot on pheasants...  They had a split plastic collar around the shot to keep it off the bbl., and it did make a difference...

  I find it much more complicated these days, as the ammo now is all over the board in quality and how it patterns...  So, i think you have to "first" decide on the ammo, and then after patterning it, decide on the choke!

  OK, i'll admit it, these days, "most" of the time i keep IC in the right bbl, and MOD in the left.... but i don't do as much shotgun shooting as i use to, and i haven't bought any new shotshells in many years....

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