I really like this idea, presumably only for clays though? This being the case what constriction would you suggest for average shooters at average layouts?
Well, it would be wrong of me to speak for Ben (but I will anyway), but as he says, he has info about this on his channel. The story goes if I recollect correctly he was pondering changing his half chokes for some long targets and had a nagging thought that maybe his halves might not be quite up to the job. So he swapped out for two ¾ chokes. The result was let’s say a very good day for Ben. Later that evening, on cleaning his gun, he’d discovered he’d mistakenly installed 2x ¼ chokes. He concluded that if he could mistakenly be a whole half choke away from what he thought he needed, the what he actually needed wasn’t the choke restriction but confidence gained from making the switch to a tighter pattern at distance. Given the error, and the successes of the day, Ben from that point forward decided not to dick about with chokes any longer.
So, conclusion. Where you place the shot is waaaay more important than the choke. And let’s face it, Ben is pretty exceptional at placing a shot. One wonders why he ever doubted his chokes in the first place, but that’s mindset for you.
I do disagree on one point with Ben in his video where he mentioned having the chokes matched to the gun. I disagree because this matching the diameters would be something in the order of 1/16 or maybe even an 1/8th. So if one half difference still makes the grade, I see little point worrying about that marginal amount of difference.
80% a mind game, the other 20% is in your head.
forget about the bang stick, the crackers, lenses. You may as well start worrying about your shoelaces. Don’t worry about anything else other than developing your skill set, until your at least as good as Ben and then, well... Ben Husthwaite QED
I personally went 2x ½
I chose this because I’d broken long targets with 21g CompX with 1/4 choke and close ones with half.
3/8 of course being in the middle seems sensible I already had one ½ and one ¼ Being a tight arsed northerner I only wanted to buy one more choke and I flipped a coin... then I decided ½ and ½ might be my better long term bet to get accustomed to.
I set the selector to bottom barrel first on the very very thin idea that the gun might be be quicker in its transient response... forget that too, it happens so quickly the human brain has no hope of processing the information. So much is a placebo. If that placebo helps you, then get ten boxes of whatever it is otherwise, forget it.
just my two cents