Firing Slugs through a choke - Page 2

oneounceload · October 21, 2009, 04:15 PM

Doyle - those comments would depend on the gun in question - probably true for your mass-produced $200 ones....but those folks who buy upper end guns pay for those barrels to be perfectly concentric and the chokes just right. Some of the best patterns I have ever shot and witnessed were with higher end guns with fixed chokes. IME, it has been the other way around - the changeable chokes have had issues of being off center, one barrel a thou or two off and the choke not compensated, etc.........

Doyle · October 22, 2009, 07:43 AM

Oneounceload, I'm sure you are right about the high-end guns being bored more true to start with. I tend to be in the "constantly broke" category so I'm a little out of it when you go talking about really good stuff.

On the other hand, I doubt if the owners of those high-end guns are going to be throwing slugs through them.

October 21, 2009, 04:15 PM	#26
oneounceload Junior member Join Date: April 18, 2008 Location: N. Central Florida Posts: 8,518	Doyle - those comments would depend on the gun in question - probably true for your mass-produced $200 ones....but those folks who buy upper end guns pay for those barrels to be perfectly concentric and the chokes just right. Some of the best patterns I have ever shot and witnessed were with higher end guns with fixed chokes. IME, it has been the other way around - the changeable chokes have had issues of being off center, one barrel a thou or two off and the choke not compensated, etc.........

October 22, 2009, 07:43 AM	#27
Doyle Senior Member Join Date: June 20, 2007 Location: Rainbow City, Alabama Posts: 7,167	Oneounceload, I'm sure you are right about the high-end guns being bored more true to start with. I tend to be in the "constantly broke" category so I'm a little out of it when you go talking about really good stuff. On the other hand, I doubt if the owners of those high-end guns are going to be throwing slugs through them.