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Thread: Chokes and short shot strings...

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    Chokes and short shot strings...

    Steve Grooms in his book Modern Pheasant Hunting (second edition) states...

    The improved cylinder choke offers the highest quality patterns at real world pheasant shooting ranges, though modified chokes work almost as well. The full choke ranks a distant third place. The harsh constriction o fthe full choke throws uneven patterns with lots of fliers and long shot stringings.

    Research shows that the shot swarm does not disperse at an even rate upon leaving the barrel. Patterns from an improved-cylinder choke open up quickly, then hold together for a long time in a deadly swarm, finally dispersing too thinly to be effective. Contrarily, full-choke patterns move out in a tight clump until some point downrange, when they quickly open up and become too dispersed to kill cleanly. Full chokes are at their best from forty to fifty yards, which is to say they are effective only within a short distance that is well beyond the range most shots at pheasants. Modified chokes fall somewhere between improved cyclinder and full chokes in their behaviour, showing more of the good qualities of improved cylinders than the bad qualities of full chokes.


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    I have spoken to shotgun owners who only ever use full choke...are they compensating by the ammuniation weight or just plain lucky!! How could the lay person test the shot stringing of their shotgun?
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