Thread: Trap
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Old October 10, 2001, 04:23 PM   #8
Bud1
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Just a bit of clarification, Andrew.

The longest shot that you will probably ever take on a skeet field is a station 3 high house, if you really let it ride out. That's right at 25 yards, and a cylinder choke is plenty for that.

Likewise, a lot of the "softer" sporting clay targets can be broken with cylinder, but an Improved Cylinder is much more common.

If you are shooting trap at an actual trap field, you are starting at a minimum of 16 yards behind the traphouse. Some really quick guns can get on the target when it is still 18 - 20 yards out of the trap house, and they *can* break it with an IC choke. If you are not so fast, it's nice to have a denser pattern such as Light Mod or tighter so that the going away bird will not fly through the ever-increasing holes in your open choked pattern. I'm a proponent of the "tight choke and smoke 'em" mentality, as that method tells me when I am "right on" the bird.

If you are playing around with a manual trap, cylinder choke is fine.

Hope that this helps.

Bud
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