better of two chokes for buckshot
I have an 870 with a 26" bbl and I want to shoot some buckshot. I hear that the best choke for this is the imp. cyl., but I don't have one. I have one marked "skeet". Is this the same or would I do better with the mod. choke?
Thanx, Earl
Thanx, Earl
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Use the skeet. If I remember right, skeet is usually half way between cylinder and improved cylinder. Buckshot doesn't compress well, so it deforms in tight chokes. Shooting it through the mod would give you less than great results.
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Thanx, man. Off to the range with the kid in the morning.
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You're right Earl, the best choke to shoot with buckshoot is improved.. You see, buckshot is like steel shot, it keeps a small pattern when exiting the barrel, so if you'd use a modified, it'd make the pattern even more tighter.
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The information posted above is basically correct; however, Ronald J. Snow did not post it. I leave the computer on in the shop for my customers to look up info, that just changed!!! Whomever posted in my stead failed to mention that the tighter the choke the more it will deform the buckshot pellets and the possibility of "fliers" will increase.0 -
Definitely use the improved. Eastwood was close when he was talking about the skeet choke, but not really correct. The skeet choke is more wide open than the improved, or the modified. iI shoot trap twice a week, and use different chokes, with different guns and barrel configurations, and they all give different and vvarying results with any particular gun and barrel length.
The most important thing to remember is, whenever you change to a different setting, be it gun, barrel, choke, or lead versus steel shot, the only way to know for sure what you pattern is doing, is to pattern it! And that means going out to the range, taking multiple cardboards of about 18x18, setting them up at 40 yrds, and shooting them with each different setup you have. Then you will know exactly what your particular gun does. Without doing that patterning, you are only guessing as to what kind of pattern, aand where your gun is throwing that pattern. If you try this, you will be amazed at the results!
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