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[Doctor Lecter]

im shooting mk38 trap gun for esp , should I have chokes opened out ? or try an buy second hand barrels 1/2 1/2  , gun fit is ok  but feel choked too tight for my skill set  !   let the advice commence   .  :wink:    

 

[EdSolomons]

Open to light mod in both and leave it!

 

[Will Hewland]

Or half and half and use cheap cartridges. 

 

[ips]

or just leave it and sample a few different cartridges and see if you can replicate the choke pattern you want.

 

[MJJ]

Chop it in for a sporter or leave it alone. Its all in the head _ so i am told 

 

[Tron]

Using tighter chokes will only make you a better shooter.  Leave them be. 

http://www.tronspace.com/Pages/default.aspx

 

[Salopian]

Well, in another thread the question was asked what is your favourite gun ? 

So here is my thoughts.

Thirty years ago I shot Trap with a Miroku 3/4 & Full. Sporting was in its infancy and participants carried two guns , a tightly choked Trap gun and an open choked Skeet gun.

I persevered with my Trap gun and then won an MK38 choked Full & Extra Full, shot it and loved it.

AJ Smith was winning everything with a Trap gun tightly choked, two young men called Faulds and Digweed professed they were using tight chokes ( Richard was , George was bullsh*tting as usual )

Barry Hebditch thought I was far too tightly choked and recommended 1/4 & 1/2, so I got another gun choked 1/2 in both barrels, it was okay but I never shot it as well , so I bought a multichoke, disaster , spent more time fiddling rather than shooting.Bought Perazzi's , DT10's , them German mis-shapes made by Kellogs but eventually after much time and money  wasted I went back to my original MK38 which I still shoot although very occasionally now at clays.

I am sure that 3/8 and 3/8 is sufficient for most targets, 1/2 & 1/2 is probably the best compromise , but if you use 3/4 plus you WILL have enough choke for everything  and if you are careful and skilful enough the close stuff will not be a problem.

Remember most of us miss the easy stuff that wrecks a card , we all concentrate and try harder on the distant stuff of which there are relatively few targets on a course.

 We hit a high percentage of a few targets and miss a high percentage of easy targets.

It is called learning

 

[EdSolomons]

Tight chokes are great if you are consistently high 80s plus on decent reg targets.

for the other 97% of people you are making your life far harder than it needs to be.

 

[andypandy]

Well said ED, as usual no bullcrap just common sense advice!

 

[Salopian]

Ed, very true , just giving my opinion,as I said  I am sure 1/2 & 1/2 is ideal, but far too much emphasis is spent on worrying about choke than time spent sorting out how to hit the target.

 

[EdSolomons]

Exactly it sir. It's about 5% of the equation at best for the vast majority of times!

 

[Jim Wheeler]

Tight chokes are great if you are consistently high 80s plus on decent reg targets.

for the other 97% of people you are making your life far harder than it needs to be.

agreed.

 i have said this many times,,, 

 

[Doctor Lecter]

what chokes on them tall tower birds ed ?    be honest   (you know the rules ) :angel:  

 

[EdSolomons]

Mine is fixed choke just over 3/4 but half would murder them just as well.

jeremy shot 3/8 and got devastating kills!

 

[Deershooter]

Or half and half and use cheap cartridges. 

who ever won anything with cheap cartridges ? 

 

[Jim Wheeler]

me,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[Sian]

and my hubby.....  I bet actually if you gave any of the top boys/girls the crappiest of the cartridges and I am yet to be convinced there is such a thing as a crappy cartridge, dirty maybe but really crappy then they would all do just as well.   

 

[Will Hewland]

And me..

 

[ips]

cant remember winning anything of note with cack cartridges but certainly lost many many many times with expensive ones.

just saying