which chokes are you currently using in 2021 ?

[GulfCoast]

Sporting 1/2 and 1/2; Skeet 1/4 and 1/4; Trap Full, and Full/Full (for doubles).    

 

[westley]

leeally quite simple.  This year, 2021, is an odd numbered year so as the rules state only odd numbered chokes are allowed in multi-choke guns.  Any fixed choke gun made prior to 1984 may be grandfathered in, but it is the shooter's responsibility to have a properly choked gun for any post-1984 production.

It's the rules; attendant DQ's and violations will go on your permanent record

I'm afraid the needle stuck on my permanent record a long time ago  !    

Chokes ? can become a bit of a obsession and a distraction !....to a DTL shooter 100 chips are better than 99 smokers ! but to me having a tighter choke tells me I shot it and not just a lucky chip ?

Bloomin eck, 100 chips...............which chippy is that then  ?

 

[Skeet UK]

Chokes ? can become a bit of a obsession and a distraction !....to a DTL shooter 100 chips are better than 99 smokers ! but to me having a tighter choke tells me I shot it and not just a lucky chip ?

99 smokers and a miss, ain't won ...

 

[balltrap]

99 smokers and a miss, ain't won ...

Well do not miss 

 

[Nick Selby]

ESP

MK38 Trap (multichoked by Teague)

Skeet & 3/8 I think....

 

[Martinj]

ESP, 1/4 & 1/2. but occasionally 1/2 & 1/2

 

[MartynB]

They make special chokes for boar shooting. Who knew!

They do actually , I doubt you’ll be firing sabot slugs at a bolting bunny clay anytime soon , but the rifled choke tube certainly does exists to help those who do feel the need to get their bacon the hard way ! 

 

[schmokinn]

FIXED

 

[Wonko the Sane]

FIXED

So what was it you fixed?

inquiring minds, etc

 

[Les53]

Trap any 

Gun  any 

3/4 & full

 

[schmokinn]

So what was it you fixed?

inquiring minds, etc

Chokes...

 

[Browning gtis]

Sporting

browning ultra sporter 28”

mandel extended 1/4 1/4 invector plus

neil

 

[Sidney Beans]

Caesar Guerini Invictus 1 with standard chokes.

Probably unpopular but I sneak around most grounds with Skeet & IC… just swap the Skeet for a tighter choke if the pair are both further out.

Whenever I practice I always out LF & F in though.

 

[Will Hewland]

I was thinking about this whole thing yesterday. The shooting industry sure has it covered in terms of winding us all up about which way to go. Top end cartridges are marketed, encouraging us to spend £300/ 1000, all in a bid to have a very tight pattern, usually too tight for most sporting targets especially when using large shot size. And then there are the likes of the bior 9 shot cartridges designed to brutally blow the pattern out for close targets. A very good shot friend of mine is now using them on well over half a typical sporting course. 
 

Choke manufacturers would have us spend a fortune on these simple little threaded tubes, with claims of.. something or other.

IMO you really do have to find a happy place in your head and settle on something simple or your mind is at risk of being very disrupted when you shoot. So for me I’m sticking to one choke size and will just have a few larger shot size cartridges in the bag for anything really long. It’s maybe not totally optimal, but it is what I can cope with without distracting myself. Focussing on pointing in the right place is invaluable.

 

[Westward]

IMO you really do have to find a happy place in your head and settle on something simple or your mind is at risk of being very disrupted when you shoot. So for me I’m sticking to one choke size and will just have a few larger shot size cartridges in the bag for anything really long. It’s maybe not totally optimal, but it is what I can cope with without distracting myself. Focussing on pointing in the right place is invaluable.

Sorry Will but this is clay shooting and clear sense and logical thinking are just not acceptable...

 

[Will Hewland]

Sorry Will but this is clay shooting and clear sense and logical thinking are just not acceptable...

I know, I should try and fit in!

 

[Mr grumpy]

1/4&1/4 for everything

525 game multichoke

 

[westley]

Chokes ? can become a bit of a obsession and a distraction !....to a DTL shooter 100 chips are better than 99 smokers ! but to me having a tighter choke tells me I shot it and not just a lucky chip ?

Judging by the physique of a lot of DTL shooters,  they must have had a lot of those 'Lucky Chips'  !