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Originally Posted by zippy13
Of course, there are those who look down upon screw-in chokes a being just a half step above Poly Chokes. Serious gentleman shooters have a different fixed choke shotgun for each application.
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That's true, and no gentleman is properly gunned if he doesn't have at least one shotgun that patterns 24 inches high at 27 yards. What would he do on a trap field where the birds are launched into a gale force wind?
I've got a couple of old Model 12s with poly chokes. As in all chokes, you've got to pattern them to find out exactly what they're doing. Because mine were made in the '50s and '60's I don't use them with steel shot. They're an anachronism from a bygone age, much akin to the Cutt's Compensator. You've never lived until you've watched a Cutt's fill up with plastic shot collars.
Ugly? Oh, yeah, they're ugly as homespun sin, but you don't have to carry a pocketful of choke tubes around with you.