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 | | From: | w h | | Subject: | What Choke for Pheasant | | Date: | Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:11:19 -0500 |
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 | "What choke is recommended?" he asked...
Where we hunt, most just use the full hand choke
(rather than the modified or improved choke). But,
sometimes one has to swing the bird around a bit to
finish it...
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| | From: | Jerry | | Subject: | Re: What Choke for Pheasant | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 06:40:44 -0500 |
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| w h wrote:
> "What choke is recommended?" he asked...
>
> Where we hunt, most just use the full hand choke
> (rather than the modified or improved choke). But,
> sometimes one has to swing the bird around a bit to
> finish it...
>
Don't quit your day job .............
Jerry
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| | From: | Superposed | | Subject: | Re: What Choke for Pheasant | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:23:02 GMT |
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| Over pointing dogs, I'll shoot skeet chokes with #5 or #6 shot through a 20 ga.
and have few cripples, most birds dead in the air. For driven/flushed birds
I'll switch to 12 ga., ic/mod and 6/7shot.
To find your ultimate, best performing set up, be sure to pattern your gun (and
your preferred ammo, too!) at the ranges you will likely engage the beasts.
This exercise will tell you a lot more about your ammo, choke and gun
combination than you even think you want to know. (eg: be careful not to
obsess).
Joseph
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| | From: | vrooooom | | Subject: | Re: What Choke for Pheasant | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:02:31 -0500 |
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| Superposed wrote:
> Over pointing dogs, I'll shoot skeet chokes with #5 or #6 shot through a 20 ga.
> and have few cripples, most birds dead in the air. For driven/flushed birds
> I'll switch to 12 ga., ic/mod and 6/7shot.
>
> To find your ultimate, best performing set up, be sure to pattern your gun (and
> your preferred ammo, too!) at the ranges you will likely engage the beasts.
> This exercise will tell you a lot more about your ammo, choke and gun
> combination than you even think you want to know. (eg: be careful not to
> obsess).
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> Joseph
When I lived in Wisconsin, I used either a Stevens 16 GA full choke on
all birds, or a 12 GA mod choke. The 16 did very well and never wounded
a bird, I think Im a pretty good shot, so..
I have an old Westernfield 12 GA pump with I love. it is a Marlin mfg,
shotgun, and does quite well on uplands as well as deer.
I also have two Remingtons, one 11-48 semi made in 1951 with a 32 inch
barrel, and a 20 GA pheasant shot gun with an adjustable choke.
the 20 GA is a pretty good gun still and does the job well.
I do miss the Stevens, that went to the ex-wife, it was a really good
shotgun, but the 11-48 puts shot out there a long way due to the long
barrel on it.
All work pretty well, and never have I had a wounded bird or too much
shot in one.
Once again,
Vrooooom
"If I told you once I told you a hundred times Spock, You kill it, you
eat it!" - James T. Kirk, Captain, USS Enterprise Star Fleet Registry
NCC-1701A
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