stripperclipper
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None of my trap guns have changeable chokes, so an ic for doubles is something I've always pondered.
Choke selection 12ga trap/skeet/sporting clay
- Thread starter wileo
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Invector DS IC is an 0.010” constriction.
I shoot an 0.015” choke for Singles and first Doubles shot. It’s called a Skeet 2, or Light Modified choke.
Invector DS IC is an 0.010” constriction.
I shoot an 0.015” choke for Singles and first Doubles shot. It’s called a Skeet 2, or Light Modified choke.
Falconflyer
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Like shooting teal in the fog ,only 1 shot and man you better be on them
I haven't shot a teal in well over a decade. Don't hunt water any longer and Teal don't generally come to a grain field unless there is sheet water on it. They are safe around me. Besides at the price of ammo these days I'm not wasting any on something that takes half a limit to fill one taco!
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Well don't take this the wrong way but if you don't trust an IC choke for the first shot in doubles then you probably don't set yourself up for the first shot properly and are taking way too long to shoot that first target. Most doubles shooters have that first target busted within 2 yards of either side of the 10 yard height setting stake meaning you are taking a 24-28 yd shot and an IC choke will absolutely inkspot a target at that distance. When I shoot doubles with an O/U I shoot IC/IM or IC/F. And not that I am a great doubles shooter but I rarely miss that first target and when I do it's because I have a computer glitch and wait until it appears above my barrel to chase it instead of shooting it as soon as it disappears under my gun on its flight path to my hold point.
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That is pretty much M/IM
Falconflyer
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
There’s nothing wrong with having fixed chokes. Some of the top sporting clays and FITSC shooters use them and mostly they choke tight and shoot far and close targets alike with them. That takes away some of the more popular excuses for missed targets such “aw shucks, I should have changed my chokes for that presentation” one just has to be more precise on the close targets.
Having fixed chokes allows the muzzles to be a bit lighter than if they had choke tubes, not much lighter but when the weight is at the end of 30 inch barrels then it does make a bit of a difference. My sporting gun is 9 lbs and has 31.5 inch barrels, I didn’t want to add a bunch of weight to the muzzles so elected to use Muller Featherweight tubes that are actually aluminum in order to avoid adding too much weight to the muzzles and they have worked out well.
Probably the nicest thing about fixed chokes is that they simplify things, no pondering what choke you should use, no worrying about them coming loose, no cleaning, no stuck tubes if you neglect them, no spending hundreds of dollars on aftermarket tubes, the list goes on.
bdft
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
a very accomplished doubles shooter told me that he had tried every choke from IC to XFull for his first target and never saw any difference. He would destroy the first target as soon as it cleared the top of the house. The patterns are all the same at that range.
Have a 94.5 average on 1400 doubles targets last year. Tried more more then a few combinations for the first shot mod choke has given the best results. Phil Kiner has videos of targets flying through IC patterns for the first bird.
IMO the biggest problem people have with doubles is they don’t shoot enough of them in practice and they don’t watch what the targets are doing.
