Chokes for the nearly blind

[Will Hewland]

Being long sighted, the glasses I shoot in make close vision pretty rubbish. My beretta chokes have no colours and are really hard to identify. Luckily I have a laser etching machine at work! The photo doesn't show it that well, but they are very clear when held.

Not sure why the photo is rotated 90 degrees..

 

[no.1topdog]

There's a new business right there Will. Choke personalisation. As well as marking them for constriction you could also do identifying marks to prove ownership if they are lost or stolen?

 

[Darkside]

Being long sighted, the glasses I shoot in make close vision pretty rubbish. My beretta chokes have no colours and are really hard to identify. Luckily I have a laser etching machine at work! The photo doesn't show it that well, but they are very clear when held.

Not sure why the photo is rotated 90 degrees..

Will, my eyesight is exellent and I struggled to read them before I painted the little grove at the end of the chokes with model enamel paint...I would have muck preferred, and did think about laser etching, but I don't have access to a laser etching machine. Good job, well done!!!

 

[Garwood]

Good job,many of us will have the same problem no doubt !

I struggle to read the markings on most chokes when wearing my shooting distance glasses,it

leads to some stands being shot with strange choices at times ......

 

[** Pending Removal **]

Will.....will you etch darlings as he is blind as a bat....

In fact at EJC I told him ...different colour elastic bands..!!

 

[Will Hewland]

There's a new business right there Will. Choke personalisation. As well as marking them for constriction you could also do identifying marks to prove ownership if they are lost or stolen?

You can put anything on of course. It does take a bit of manual setting up, so rather uneconomical to do one offs and custom jobs (given that the machine and it's operator is flat out doing other work). But if you had a batch, doing same markings, it's shelling peas.

 

[Bryn12]

Those are really, really smart.

 

[Stan]

Being long sighted, the glasses I shoot in make close vision pretty rubbish. My beretta chokes have no colours and are really hard to identify. Luckily I have a laser etching machine at work! The photo doesn't show it that well, but they are very clear when held.

Not sure why the photo is rotated 90 degrees..

The joys of owning an engineering company!

 

[Eddie Wilkinson]

Great job, could be onto something there :nyam:

For me its leave the 1/2's in all the time and if they need to be changed make sure the little fella is with me :haha:

 

[ips]

Nail varnish ....

Just saying.

 

[Eddie Wilkinson]

Yea I've tried that..... always mange to scratch it off when changing the chokes, then my fingers aren't quite matching the colour of my skeet vest   :crazy:

 

[Rosso]

Nail varnish ....

Just saying.

Matches your lipstick and eye liner.

 

[ips]

Matches your lipstick and eye liner.

Exactly

 

[sibaldib]

Very nice job Will, but I never have trouble seeing the markings on mine. Subtle they ain't.

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[Will Hewland]

Yes, muller obviously has a near-blind head designer. Beretta obviously feel other shooters should not be able to see what you are using. Or indeed for you to know yourself!

 

[Dog Tyred]

Yes, muller obviously has a near-blind head designer. Beretta obviously feel other shooters should not be able to see what you are using. Or indeed for you to know yourself!

Of course Beretta do provide a coloured band on their Optima extended chokes which instead of becoming an eye sight test ( assuming you are not colour blind) becomes a memory test instead!

DT

 

[chippy]

Could you etch 3/4 on a couple of my 1/4 chokes as I'am fed up with people saying "1/4 choke will never break that"

 

[Doctor Lecter]

I need a prescription window screen  , I have trouble finding the shooting ground .! :spiteful:

 

[Nicky T]

Nick Thompson at Prestige Laser Services in Brighton has done some custom engraving for some of my customers and is quite reasonably priced. You can contact him via: 01273 911550 or on [email protected].