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Had a Cabela's gift card for my birthday so picked up a pair of Carlson's tubes. Hope to give one a try tomorrow in the duck blind
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Many good ones out there, but it always makes me wonder that almost all just accept what the chokes says for constriction is what they will be getting.
If you don't know your bore diameter and then the diameter of the choke, and subtract choke from bore then you don't know what your actual constriction will be.
Some shotguns are known for tight bores, some are over-bored and sometimes they vary within the same model.
Last competition shotgun I bought was fixed LM/LM. No thinking about chokes and which is best. Point correctly and the target breaks. Couple field guns are fixed Mod. Shooting is much simpler without choke changing. Chokes give us inches and we usually miss by feet. Gotta agree with knowing the bore vs. actual choke tube constriction. There was a company (Seminole) that would measure your bore and sell you a tube with the exact ID that would give you the desired constriction. Many off the shelf chokes can be ten thousands, or more, off vs. your actual bore. You just never know what your screwing in is right unless you know the actual bore.
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I have a full set skeet-full of bore matched chokes for my SBE from angle port. I use lt mod and imp mod 99% of the time if I'm not duck hunting.
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Hands down for waterfowl....patternmaster, only better option than that would be to send the gun to rob Roberts and have him put it on his computer patterning system and customize the choke to your gun
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All chokes are not made the same whether factory or aftermarket and there can be a lot of variances in constriction and diameter from manufacturer to manufacturer for the same size choke tube.
IMO shot string length means more to me than choke constriction. For ducks and geese I only use wad retention /lock type chokes - Pattern Master, Kicks and Pure Gold, and I pattern all my guns with the loads I'm using.
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So, finally got to shoot a few ducks and geese this weekend. Nicely dropped a mallard from a big flock that came in, but don't know that I can say better than before but the bird was dead when it hit the water. We shot some geese to but with 7 guys in the blind and 5 geese in the flock, there was a lot of shot in the air so hard to say!
I did shoot a cripple from someone else on the water and I think the shot string was shorter than the other strings from some other guns, at least from the appearance on the water.
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I use Muller lightweight chokes in my Blaser F3. Very pleased with them. One U0, two U01's, one U2 and one U3. That covers the range for sporting clays.
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