Chokes for Sporting.

[GlenPresley]

I lick bus windows........ :huh:

Was you one of those we shipped in from Hemel Hempstead we use to organise a window licker bus for them..........good cheap labour!

 

[Adam]

1/2 and 1/2 will do nicely thanks but if your interested have a look at this

http://www.1000islandssportsmens.org/files/chkchrt.pdf

 

[Westward]

As the Americans (Bless) would say "It's the stroke not the choke".

 

[EdSolomons]

Whoever made that chart needs to go out and get their nuts wet! Jesus wept.....

 

[Mark Jones]

Whoever made that chart needs to go out and get their nuts wet! Jesus wept.....

That chart looks very informative!!!!! I may enlarge it to A3 so I can pull it out of my bag prior to each stand :.:

 

[teepee1234]

A1 would be better, then you use it as a pattern plate.......

 

[Salopian]

Choke charts are like Bibles.

Everyone has seen one, few have read one, and most are left in the drawer at Travellodge.

 

[Les53]

You need enough to make good breaks, 1/2 is enough, just, which is probably why so many seem able to live with such a wide range as 1/2 through to Full. I would hazard a guess that the reason you seemed able to live with DTL targets and 1/4 was a combination of you shooting quick, the targets being essentially easy compared to say OT or dare I say it Sportin' and the reality that many so called 1/4 chokes don't throw as such.

The ultimate proof comes from knowing that the best will not trust 1/4 or thereabouts to break everything.

Yeh I used to shoot very fast in those days, well I was a lot younger back then! . :wink:

 

[VicW]

Whoever made that chart needs to go out and get their nuts wet! Jesus wept.....

Briley published that chart some years ago.

I like the video by Gil & Viki Ash that shows that 1/2 choke is the dog's danglers for Sporting clays.

If you have a favoured choke size and manufacturer I suggest you get it/them properly measured against the bore size of the gun you use them in.

I have a 1/4 Briley choke that actually measures 8 thou,not 10 and a 1/2 choke that measures 17 thou not 20.

I also have a Teague 3/8 choke that is spot on 15 thou.

On the other hand perhaps it's better not to get them measured,it may destroy your confidence in their performance.

Vic.

 

[MX8man]

.4 and .8 (Perazzi measure tenths) so translated it's a tight three-eights and a tight three-quarter. I only use fibre wad cartridges - one brand which I've tested on the pattern plate - and this combined with a barrel selector gives me enough options.

All my guns are fixed choke. I used to have a multichoke for clays but the chap who taught me told me that if I concentrated on pointing the gun in he right direction I wouldn't need to worry about changing chokes.