Choosing choke tubes

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So I bought a 12g Citori White Lightning O/U that I would like to use for informal skeet/trap and Waterfowling (Geese mostly). I just ordered a set of Carlson Waterfowl 3 pack which gave me:

LEAD STEEL
CYL IC .730 CLOSE
IC MOD .720 MID
MOD FULL .710 EXTENDED


I was looking to fill some of the void more particularly for skeet/trap with their ported extended choke tubes but kinda lost as to which ones I should get I was thinking 1 or 2..I'm still all new to this but if anyone could help me out that would be great. I also plan to pick up a SX3 eventually which is good because these chokes will interchange between the 2 guns.

here is the link to where the choke/constriction sizes are


http://www.choketube.com/browning-plus.html
 
To paraphrase a great line line (IMO) I read at Shotgunworld:

Cylinder shines at 25 yards and under. Full choke shines at 30 yards and over. All the rest of the chokes are competing for 5 yards.

I know, this doesn't really help with your question :redface:
 
How about Skeet chokes for Skeet?

Mod will do fine for trap - or tighter if you really want to grind 'em up. Anything more open and you might loose some. That said, we were goofing around on the weekend and shot trap with skeet-choked 410's! Ha! What a laugh! Hit a few, crushed a couple and missed a lot!

Check out the Briley site if you want to see a range of (excellent) chokes in 5-thou increments. In 20ga, they're in 2-3-thou increments!

Good luck - SD
 
One of the members here sent me a video by Gil and Vicki Ash about choke choice in sporting clays. Apparently their students came up with an idea for clays. They used skeet for birds up to 25 yards and modified beyond that. So, would like to second the idea of skeet chokes for skeet, with the possibility of usefulness in sporting as well.
 
IH8ATTN said:
So technically I should be getting the ported extended Improved cylinder steel choke which would equal to a lead skeet based on what they say then right? I'm pretty sure on the Carlson site they are basing everything on steel. If someone could clarify that, that would be great.

http://www.choketube.com/browning-plus.html
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What they say about steel to lead conversions is just a rule of thumb. Actualty talking just lead choke, when a manufactuer states a choke based on restriction or labeled full modified or skeet, or whatever, it is just there best guesstimate. To determine true choke you actually have to shoot and pattern with the actual shot you will be shooting. I have seen some marked as full that patterned modified and vice versa. I have seen some that patterned as marked with some shot sizes and not as marked with other sizes.
You got a F, M and IC with your citori and you got a whole hand full of steel chokes. Without going to the pattern board I would say somewhere in that bunch you have longer range covered. Get at least one skeet choke or straight cylinder and you will probably have everything covered. More important, just get out and shoot your gun.
 
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