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Thread: What's the best choke for steel

  1. #21
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    Re: What's the best choke for steel

    Quote Originally Posted by guntech View Post
    SHOTGUN BARREL ALTERATIONS FOR STEEL SHOT

    Forcing Cone Alteration:

    Factory shotgun barrels usually have a fairly short and abrupt forcing cone. The forcing cone is the tapered area just ahead of the chamber where the shell is contained. Altering the forcing cone, so it is one and one half or two inches in length, reduces recoil and improves the pattern density. Trap shooters and skeet shooters have been doing this for many years. It is a good benefit to the steel shot user as well.

    Choke Alteration:
    Choke designation from the tightest to the most open are:
    Extra Full, Full, Improved Modified, Modified, Skeet II, Improved Cylinder, Skeet I, and Cylinder Bore.

    Steel shot does not require the constriction that lead shot needs, to produce good patterns. In fact too much constriction, causes poor, erratic patterns, and in some cases, permanently damages the barrel. I have seen barrels bulged at the choke, I have seen barrels where the choke split right open, from using steel shot.

    For steel shot, with thin barrels, chokes should be altered to at least Skeet II. Often, over & under, and side-by-side shotguns, are best altered to Skeet I and Skeet II chokes. Heavier barrels can be left at Modified choke but may see an improvement in the pattern if opened slightly.

    Older full chokes often split.
    I had my wingmaster drilled out to Mod. Had it done in Prince George at the sporting goods store that use to be on the hwy heading north out of town. I think the guys name was ziggy but not sure. What he recommended and seems to have worked.
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  2. #22
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    Re: What's the best choke for steel

    I use IC on most of my guns hunting waterfowl now except for a couple that are fixed mod. .
    Last edited by Dutch; 02-02-2025 at 02:04 AM.

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