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BigJimP · January 3, 2008, 01:18 PM

Point of impact on a shotgun can vary from barrel to barrel on a gun - and the only way to really tell is to go to a pattern board - fire at a dot - and see what your point of impact is. Make sure you fire 4 or 5 shells to make sure the point of impact is consistent - if its not consistent, your mounting of the gun probably needs work.

You can change wedges, combs, put pads on comb, change recoil pads etc to alter the point of impact on a shotgun. On shotugns - your eye is the rear sight - and the point is to make sure the shotgun impacts where you are looking. Shotguns do not come in one size fits all - they need to be adjusted to fit you.

There is also some variance in chokes - 2 Mod chokes may throw different densities of patterns - but the point of impact/or center of the pattern should not change when you change the choke - if it does go to the pattern board again and work on it some more. You can't tell what the point of impact is in the sky at a skeet target ( people say they see the shot cloud, but its mostly bs ..). The idea of a choke is to put a 30" pattern, with density, on the target at the kill range ( so that usually means a skeet choke out to about 25 yards, an IC choke 25-30 yards, a Mod choke at 30 - 35 yards (like 16 yard trap) - and IM 35 - 40 yds / a Full choke beyond 40 yards is a guideline.

January 3, 2008, 01:18 PM	#6
BigJimP Senior Member Join Date: February 23, 2005 Posts: 13,195	Point of impact on a shotgun can vary from barrel to barrel on a gun - and the only way to really tell is to go to a pattern board - fire at a dot - and see what your point of impact is. Make sure you fire 4 or 5 shells to make sure the point of impact is consistent - if its not consistent, your mounting of the gun probably needs work. You can change wedges, combs, put pads on comb, change recoil pads etc to alter the point of impact on a shotgun. On shotugns - your eye is the rear sight - and the point is to make sure the shotgun impacts where you are looking. Shotguns do not come in one size fits all - they need to be adjusted to fit you. There is also some variance in chokes - 2 Mod chokes may throw different densities of patterns - but the point of impact/or center of the pattern should not change when you change the choke - if it does go to the pattern board again and work on it some more. You can't tell what the point of impact is in the sky at a skeet target ( people say they see the shot cloud, but its mostly bs ..). The idea of a choke is to put a 30" pattern, with density, on the target at the kill range ( so that usually means a skeet choke out to about 25 yards, an IC choke 25-30 yards, a Mod choke at 30 - 35 yards (like 16 yard trap) - and IM 35 - 40 yds / a Full choke beyond 40 yards is a guideline.