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Back in the day shotguns came with fixed chokes.
I and many others still prefer fixed chokes.
Fixed chokes really were not a problem for shotgunners, back then any more than they are today. Just like yesteryear, folks tried a gun for gun fit, considered task for gun and investigated and verified loads for that gun at yardages.
Basically the way it worked was 26" barrel was fixed Skeet or Improved Cylinder, 28" for fixed Modified, and 30" for fixed full.
One can get a Improved Cylinder like pattern from a fixed full choke.
We stacked loads back in the day after shooting a pattern board.
Again shotgunner understood "matter of bore not choke" and "pellet deformity", "chilled/soft shot" "hard/target shot and many other aspects of this Art & Science.
So a person with a 30" barrel, with a fixed full choke would load a "wide" pattern shell into the chamber for the first shot and one a bit "tighter" for the second shot, a bit further out.
Screw in chokes come to be and cordless drills got to be more fun to play with "spinning choke tubes" than actually investigating and verifying what a gun did with what load at what distance.
Truth is, the shotgunners that "get it" don't do the "Choke Tube Spin Boogie"...they have stacked loads and they have already checked that gun, with that choke tube installed with the loads they have.
Focus on the target - not the equipment - Will Fennell.
Passing forward is a lot of fun and rewarding.
So some kids and new folks had a ball running back and forth over bag of shot in the driveway.
Bag was low, these folks really into learning, the pattern board and all and so go out and "flatten" or "smush it " to get the chilled shot "flat".
Serious fun so a .410 with fixed full and a 20ga with various fixed barrels were chosen for this fun lesson.
These two guns have a reload recipe that is known and has been shot and the pattern papers saved showing what these guns do.
So for this lesson the same recipe with #8 shot, hard and soft - not messed with was shot, with the .410 single shot and with the 20 ga, with Sk, Mod, and full barrels.
Control if you will.
Now reload the smushed chilled with respective recipes.
Shoot for patterns and that fixed full for example really opened up with "flat shot".
It was a nice day for they had for doing this, and lots of fun, and very educational.
Reloading affords one some options...
Try this sometime and do so with a new shooter and pass it forward.
Steve
I and many others still prefer fixed chokes.
Fixed chokes really were not a problem for shotgunners, back then any more than they are today. Just like yesteryear, folks tried a gun for gun fit, considered task for gun and investigated and verified loads for that gun at yardages.
Basically the way it worked was 26" barrel was fixed Skeet or Improved Cylinder, 28" for fixed Modified, and 30" for fixed full.
One can get a Improved Cylinder like pattern from a fixed full choke.
We stacked loads back in the day after shooting a pattern board.
Again shotgunner understood "matter of bore not choke" and "pellet deformity", "chilled/soft shot" "hard/target shot and many other aspects of this Art & Science.
So a person with a 30" barrel, with a fixed full choke would load a "wide" pattern shell into the chamber for the first shot and one a bit "tighter" for the second shot, a bit further out.
Screw in chokes come to be and cordless drills got to be more fun to play with "spinning choke tubes" than actually investigating and verifying what a gun did with what load at what distance.
Truth is, the shotgunners that "get it" don't do the "Choke Tube Spin Boogie"...they have stacked loads and they have already checked that gun, with that choke tube installed with the loads they have.
Focus on the target - not the equipment - Will Fennell.
Passing forward is a lot of fun and rewarding.
So some kids and new folks had a ball running back and forth over bag of shot in the driveway.
Bag was low, these folks really into learning, the pattern board and all and so go out and "flatten" or "smush it " to get the chilled shot "flat".
Serious fun so a .410 with fixed full and a 20ga with various fixed barrels were chosen for this fun lesson.
These two guns have a reload recipe that is known and has been shot and the pattern papers saved showing what these guns do.
So for this lesson the same recipe with #8 shot, hard and soft - not messed with was shot, with the .410 single shot and with the 20 ga, with Sk, Mod, and full barrels.
Control if you will.
Now reload the smushed chilled with respective recipes.
Shoot for patterns and that fixed full for example really opened up with "flat shot".
It was a nice day for they had for doing this, and lots of fun, and very educational.
Reloading affords one some options...
Try this sometime and do so with a new shooter and pass it forward.
Steve