Steel Safe Remington Full Choke

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I've seen on the Remington Full choke that it is safe for steel? Just curious if anyone has experience using them? I currently shoot steel out of my factory Mod choke but wouldn't mind picking up a Full to try for steel as well as trying it with Federal loads with the Flite Control wad for Turkeys.

Would it be safe to shoot steel BB out of the Full?

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Riley
 
riley.fadden12 said:
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Does it throw much tighter patterns than the Mod?
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When I bought the gun, I told the store owner/gunsmith that I was buying it for waterfowl and he said ok it comes with a Remington factory full choke safe for steel shot. The gun was a "turkey gun" I suppose and only came with that choke. Never had a problem shooting ducks and geese with it, cant give any info on patterns, as I didn't compare it to any other chokes. The gun saw lots of use, 2.75", 3" and 3.5" shells no problem. It was my main waterfowl gun for years until I upgraded a few years back.
 
It able to take bore vs choke measurements you will find that this Remington FULL is actually closer to MOD specs and that is why it will handle steel OK. Manufacturers have opened the choke diameters since the mandate of steel to reduce the chances of any choke damage. BUT you have to determine the bore vs choke diameter to determine this. The measurement of the choke diameter is only half the equation.

Darryl
 
riley.fadden12 said:
I currently shoot steel out of my factory Mod choke but wouldn't mind picking up a Full to try for steel as well as trying it with Federal loads with the Flite Control wad for Turkeys.
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More choke will likely be counterproductive with the FliteControl wads. In my testing with 00 buckshot, I found that even improved cylinder was less than optimal and a skeet choke (.005" constriction) gave the tightest patterns. I did not test a straight cylinder choke, as I could not find one.
 
tjhaile said:
More choke will likely be counterproductive with the FliteControl wads. In my testing with 00 buckshot, I found that even improved cylinder was less than optimal and a skeet choke (.005" constriction) gave the tightest patterns. I did not test a straight cylinder choke, as I could not find one.
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I agree that too much choke with the Flite Control wads is not a good thing, however I tried my Mod choke with 3" 1 3/4oz #6's and it put 5 or 6 pellets in the kill zone of a turkey target at 40yards. I think with the Full that I'm getting it has a potential to throw a decent pattern.

I was shooting my dad's 11-87 with Federal loads and with the XFull choke it was distorting the wad and throwing off the pattern. Once we moved down to a Full choke, it put a decent pattern out to 40 yards. I saved the wads to compare them. It looked like the XFull wad had been compressed while the shot cup of the Full choke shot was normal.

All in all I'm impressed with the Federal Flite Control wads, however I find they kick a heck of A LOT more than loads with conventional wads.
 
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