Rifled choke for shot pellets

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bluebuttskunk

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Hi Everyone,

I heard once that if you use a rifled choke for shot that you get a super wide pattern.

Has anyone every tried this?

Thanks
 
Yes and yes. The rifling spins the cup that holds the shot and the centripetal force spreads the shot too much to be useful. It is a bad idea.
 
Thanks for the heads up glad to have had the feedback/warning before trying it. I was thinking about it for really close grouse hunting in dense bush and thought it would help.
 
The problem is it causes a very poor pattern full of empty areas. Patterns are supposed to be uniform...
 
curtmg said:
Rifled barrel wouldn't have a choke. The choke is for constriction in a smoothbore to tighten the pattern of shot.
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The original question was about a rifled choke. I'm assuming he meant a smoothbore barrel with a rifled choke in it so that the last couple of inches were rifled.
 
bluebuttskunk said:
Thanks for the heads up glad to have had the feedback/warning before trying it. I was thinking about it for really close grouse hunting in dense bush and thought it would help.
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For really close grouse hunting in dense bush use a .22 or head shot the grouse with your 12g. There's not much point in wrecking meat with a huge choke. Either you hit the grouse with a full choke or you suck with a shotgun. I really don't think anyone is that terrible with a 12g that they can't "aim" for a head shot. The worst I've had is 2 pellets in the top of the breast that went right through. Practice and you should be able to get it quite easily.
 
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