Fixed chokes...

[MDP]

Interested in hearing points of view... So if you were using a fixed choke gun for English Sporting, what constrictions would you use (quarter/half, half/half etc...)? 

Also the same question for FITASC.

Many thanks 

 

[MJJ]

The same as i use in a multichoke. I dont change them. They only come out for a clean and go back in. People should concentrate more on there shooting and stop worrying 'what choke for this or that'. 3/4 for me on everything 

 

[FreeShot]

In theory - 3/8 and 5/8  - or 1/2 and 3/4, taking in account that there are cartridges that throw wide patterns and those that throw tight ones and can make up /down 1 constriction. So with mixing components you end up with gun that oscillates between 1/4 and 1/1 h34r:

 

[schmokinn]

Half and half,i miss not the gun

 

[ChrisPackham]

½ in both and play around with cartridges 

 

[westley]

1/4 in both and play with the cartridges,  since I started going blind  !    

 

[chippy]

1/4  1/4 if I had to. But changing chokes is half the fun. It seems to wind up other shooters.

 

[Bebo]

I shoot a fixed choke gun for ESP.  3/8th both barrels.  

 

[Cosmicblue]

My DSR is half and quarter allegedly, fixed.   Given the breaks I get it would suggest it's really Full and Extra Full - they clearly have a wicked sense of humour in the Perazzi factory - but I like it that way.  As schmokinn said so succinctly above, if I miss then it's an operator problem, not the gun. 

 

[Jonny English]

My DSR is half and quarter allegedly, fixed.   Given the breaks I get it would suggest it's really Full and Extra Full - they clearly have a wicked sense of humour in the Perazzi factory - but I like it that way.  As schmokinn said so succinctly above, if I miss then it's an operator problem, not the gun. 

I shot with a chap a few months ago that had a P & V DSR that was supposed to be 1/2 and 1/2, using fibre wad cartridges it was dusting stuff well out, no way was it half and half either.

 

[jwpzx9r]

3/4 and full you are an accurate shot so no problems. If you think about it though it does not matter what choking you have if you have put the load onto the target... say someone who does not shoot ESP :lol:  Honestly though has anybody ever analysed the difference in shot dispersal between .25 , .5 and full at say 30m does the difference really add up to a miss... if you get you shot on the target? Getting your shot on the target is the key not the choke you are using in my opinion no matter what the discipline. Yes you can be, shall we say, fortunate at times but by and large it is down to getting the load onto the target not the choke. JMOT

 

[Wonko the Sane]

A gent (ATA shooter) I shoot with was skeptical about open chokes.  At the time I had a Perazzi TMX with factory screw-ins.  So from the 27yd line he started with a #10.  Pretty consistent breaks.  Went to a #8.  Pretty consistent breaks.  Down to a #6.  Pretty consistent breaks.  And then to the most open I had, a #4 (0.016").  Pretty consistent breaks.  He is AA/27 class shooter so the number of misses were few and even he said that they were miss pointed not targets "flying thru the pattern".  I suppose that if we'd used the shot-cam there would have been obvious differences in the quality of the breaks but as it was they looked enough the same to give him something to think about.  So those would have been targets in the distance of 50-60 yards.

FWIW I've never been Mr. Wonderful but with a 28" barrel pigeon gun, +/- 1/2 choke and 24gm carts I can decisively break targets from the 27.  Like John says, if you put the load on the target ...............

just say'n