.... that is the question"
I guess it's safe to say that my one-time love affair with the now ubiquitous choke tube is over... and has been for some time.
I much prefer fixed chokes... for aesthetic reasons and due to the fact that fixed chokes can, and do deliver better patterns on target. While I have no empirical evidence to support my contention, it exists between the ears, and the key to successful shotgunning resides between the ears. So, if I believe it to be so, for me it is so!
I'm also of the opinion that modern ammunition does not require the degree of choke that was once necessary. I've proven to myself how far .008 of choke in the twelve ga. can reliably break a target, and it's much farther than most people would think..
Changing choke tubes is, to me at least, like changing dimensions on a adjustable stock... We can just get into too much trouble by doing it. It takes one's concentration off of the situation at hand, and becomes a distraction unto itself..
Sometimes when we're not shooting as well as we believe we should, we seek to make a change... and I guess that's OK. But, chokes and stock dimensions that worked before are, IMO not the place to go looking for answers..
Perhaps one of the motivational tapes placed under one's pillow at night... "You are great... You are great... You are great... You ar.....
Enjoy the weekend... and pray for some sun!
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Since I've been shooting only guns with fixed chokes, I seem to be more consistent. I don't miss the choke tubes at all, all though I have some nice ones for Brownings I no longer own.
ReplyDeleteFor upland gunning, it seems to me that one open and one not so open will do the trick in a gun that shoots where the gunner points.
I don't know but I've heard it said, that either way the bird is dead.