choke for game

[ips]

what would be the ideal fixed choke for pheasant.

seen a nice Beretta s56 game with 3/8 full. Seems an odd choke combination ...... Or is it ????

 

[Will Hewland]

what would be the ideal fixed choke for pheasant.

seen a nice Beretta s56 game with 3/8 full. Seems an odd choke combination ...... Or is it ????

The conventional concept is that you would use more choke for the first shot, less for second, as a driven pheasant is flying towards you. That's the idea anyway..

 

[ips]

yes makes sense will but is this particular combination suitable ??

 

[40UP]

No you'd have to bore it out or engage every pheasant with full choke for the first shot.

 

[Will Hewland]

Like sporting clays, you never have the perfect choke in, in reality. You certainly don't want to shoot a relatively close pheasant with full choke.

 

[Les53]

Ian, I can't believe you've started a choke thread!!!!  An old trap shooter I once knew was invited to a pheasant shoot, he only had a B2G trap gun (full/extra full) so that's what he used, with Winchester 32grm size 7 trap shells. He was not invited to shoot again after that day. By all accounts he hit plenty of birds but there was nothing left to eat.  :lol:

 

[ips]

No you'd have to bore it out or engage every pheasant with full choke for the first shot.

its a nice gun, what would you bore it out too ?

 

[40UP]

Provided it has one trigger and a barrel selector I'd bore the full out to quarter [£50] and use it three-eighth and quarter but make sure the three-eighth is 15thou first.

 

[ips]

tis single and pretty sure selective. Noted cheers

 

[40UP]

then if you go to a serious pheasant shoot you can add a proper cartridge say Zenith 36gm Copper.

then if you go to a serious serious pheasant shoot just take the EELL :smile:

 

[Les53]

then if you go to a serious pheasant shoot you can add a proper cartridge say Zenith 36gm Copper.

then if you go to a serious serious pheasant shoot just take the EELL :smile:

Now now Fred................. :lol:

tis single and pretty sure selective. Noted cheers

So what happened about side by sides then? 

 

[Dog Tyred]

just bore out the EELL to 1/2 and 3/4. Apparently that's all you need for OT anyway

DT

 

[ips]

les

still undecided on ss just researching my options at this stage.

greg

ouch, bore me eell !! I jolly well will not

 

[Doctor Lecter]

most of the pheasants shot locally Lincolnshire   1/4 choke is plenty .  

 

[sibaldib]

Unless you are shooting stupidly high pheasants, 1/4 and 1/2 choke will hit everything. I have used this combination in my Beretta 20 bore for many years with 28gm cartridges and never felt underchoked.

 

[ChrisPackham]

yes makes sense will but is this particular combination suitable ??

I understand that modern cartridges pattern tighter than the old ones so full probably a bit heavy, maybe take it to ⅝ and leave the ⅜ as it is, I would suggest that's perfect for most stuff.

 

[ips]

nothing stupid high for the foreseeable

 

[ChrisPackham]

nothing stupid high for the foreseeable

Even then ⅝ would probably cope, I went on a couple of 'High Bird Days' and ¾ and ½ was enough, I think people over choke game guns as the new cartridges pattern tighter.

 

[Salopian]

I have posted this before , but here goes again.

Two years ago a party of Americans were shooting at Bettws Hall .

On the first day I loaded for a Gentleman shooting a Beretta EELL he shot brilliantly and shot some seriously high pheasants , all with true cylinder chokes in both barrels .

Reason being the parties guns were stored year round at William Evans and whilst in annual store they were cleaned and had the choke tubes removed , and no one remembered to refit them ?????? Cartridges used were Express Supreme 32 gram 5s Fibres.