Choke Choices Made Simple

[iron cat]

This is great information. I shot my first round of trap this week with 20 inch barrel with modified. Hit maybe 20%.
Next round I’ll use the cylinder bore. Maybe modified was too tight for my first go at this but thought with the short barrel may be beneficial. Perhaps not.
Was fun regardless

Was this on a regulation trap layout, (16 yards from the house and 5 stations) or a farm field set up standing near one trap?
If it was ATA, stick with a mod or full choke
Cat

 

[struff55]

i wonder how all the shooters in north america shot all those 100 straights in trap and skeet without porting and with fixed full chokes

 

[warzaw]

i wonder how all the shooters in north america shot all those 100 straights in trap and skeet without porting and with fixed full chokes

Don't forget the model 12 trap and skeet guns. Mine still get used lots of straights for me with that pair.

 

[Mr Bill]

Your last acquisition was a Win model 23! Just the facts mam(man)!!

Well almost in my hands… In Canada now, fees paid to the importer Prophet River, and just received notice yesterday that it was picked up by Canada Post and should be on my doorstep MAY 4TH !!!!!! I will be parked outside by my mailbox waiting for the mail truck depending on my tracking notifications which i check every half hour. Can’t decide whether I should start with the 20g or 28g barrels first on this little high grade Winchester Model 23. I am very excited…fixed chokes, no ports ever. lol

Did I mention Im very EXCITED ?? !!!!! lol

 

[ERprecision]

Longer barrels promote a smoother swing. For trap stick with your modified choke. Cylinder is better for skeet.

Longer barreled gun coming in the future....and will stick to the modified. I know is operator error more than the choke

 

[ERprecision]

Was this on a regulation trap layout, (16 yards from the house and 5 stations) or a farm field set up standing near onevtrsp?
If it was ATA, stick with a mod or full choke
Cat

It was at the club I joined, so yes appears semi regulation with 5 station shooting deck -not a fan shaped field

 

[bunny]

Chokes are overrated, I use full choked old guns from the days before removable were developed, and shoot better than most shooters at my club, even the one ones with 16K Kreigoffs. Put centre of pattern where the target is going to be and it will break.

 

[sillymike]

Was it Gough Thomas that published some in interesting articles in the Shooting Times (or maybe it was in his book Shotguns & Cartridges ) about chokes and relative impact they actually have on your score/game?

 

[the spank]

This is great information. I shot my first round of trap this week with 20 inch barrel with modified. Hit maybe 20%.
Next round I’ll use the cylinder bore. Maybe modified was too tight for my first go at this but thought with the short barrel may be beneficial. Perhaps not.
Was fun regardless

Go true cylinder bore and halve that barrel to 10" and you'll be running 100 straights in no time.

 

[warzaw]

Go true cylinder bore and halve that barrel to 10" and you'll be running 100 straights in no time.

Are you talking straight misses if so you are 100 % correct Mr spank. I think ER precision has got it figured out with his last post he will be just fine.

 

[the spank]

Chokes are overrated, I use full choked old guns from the days before removable were developed, and shoot better than most shooters at my club, even the one ones with 16K Kreigoffs. Put centre of pattern where the target is going to be and it will break.

But what about the ones with 20K, 30K or even 50K or more Krieghoffs? You know there is a saying "the more money you throw at a problem the quicker it goes away"...

 

[Arietta]

But what about the ones with 20K, 30K or even 50K or more Krieghoffs? You know there is a saying "the more money you throw at a problem the quicker it goes away"...

An expensive gun doesn't make you shoot any better but you do look a lot better when you miss.

 

[Longstud]

Well almost in my hands… In Canada now, fees paid to the importer Prophet River, and just received notice yesterday that it was picked up by Canada Post and should be on my doorstep MAY 4TH !!!!!! I will be parked outside by my mailbox waiting for the mail truck depending on my tracking notifications which i check every half hour. Can’t decide whether I should start with the 20g or 28g barrels first on this little high grade Winchester Model 23. I am very excited…fixed chokes, no ports ever. lol

Did I mention Im very EXCITED ?? !!!!! lol

I was half expecting a flat blade trigger in the mail after the threat. Did I mention I was Very Excited?? No soup for you!!

 

[twiki]

Trulock non-ported in a Citori 725 Trap (0.740” bore):

0.015” - Light Mod (Skeet 2 SK2) for 16 yard use
0.025” - Improved Modified IM for 20 yard use

Also used for the odd Doubles.

Also a Full F that's only used for games like Annie Oakley.

 

[Falconflyer]

But what about the ones with 20K, 30K or even 50K or more Krieghoffs? You know there is a saying "the more money you throw at a problem the quicker it goes away"...

You mean that the more money you throw at a problem the quicker the money goes away? Lol