kevin15 Posted June 18, 2002 Report Share Posted June 18, 2002 I have just bought a gun with multi chokes and it seems i get different advice from everyone i talk to, i have always used 1/4 and 1/2 fixed using 32g No6 can anyone recomend the best set up for decoyed pigeon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted June 18, 2002 Report Share Posted June 18, 2002 Sounds OK to me mate :thumbs: . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted June 18, 2002 Report Share Posted June 18, 2002 The strange thing is that multichokes started the big "choke debate". When the only guns you could buy were "fixed" chokes, normally half and threequarters, shooters got use to that and shot accordingly. Assuming a normal (30 yardish) decoy layout, I have had a lot of success using improved cylinder and quarter choke. On one or two locations I shoot, I change to quarter and one half choke. These locations frequently provide higher passing birds and I am happier with a slightly tighter choke. The important word is "happier", I think its 75% confidence and 25% ballistics. Well, it is with me. :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted June 18, 2002 Report Share Posted June 18, 2002 I agree with Cranfield. Open chokes (Imp,1/4,1/2) are best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazza Posted June 18, 2002 Report Share Posted June 18, 2002 I think you should shoot with what your happiest with....I normally use 1/4 & 1/2...............but when I know I'm going to be shooting at 45 yards plus.........I change to 3/4 & full.........recently I've seen alot of shots taken at 60-70 yards, by a very experienced shooter.........& 90% of the shots are kills................not that I could do it.........but it's good to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazza Posted June 18, 2002 Report Share Posted June 18, 2002 I just watched one of your videos on the net...........but it had nothing to do with shooting..........well not using a shotgun anyway!!!!......................something about wacking a weapon on a desk................. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave15 Posted June 18, 2002 Report Share Posted June 18, 2002 :thumbs: What all this stuff about videos? Any one want to see want to see some big game hunting videos check out www.Skisland.com/jakt/video.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted June 18, 2002 Report Share Posted June 18, 2002 lazza, what choke(s) was the long range shooter using ? I,ve already guessed his cartridge type..............Alphamax 3" BB. :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deako Posted June 18, 2002 Report Share Posted June 18, 2002 lazza. I hope your not about to start another " I don't believe a word of that" debates, I don't think I can take another one!!..............as the actress said to the bishop....... :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazza Posted June 19, 2002 Report Share Posted June 19, 2002 The long range shooter, is the gamekeeper on one of the estates. He uses an old 30 inch magnam,sbs, which is choked at 3/4 & full. Through it he put's 30gm 6's, with plastic wads. He paid £100 for the gun, but it's probably worth about £300. I've watched him shoot a left & a right at 50 yards & 70 yards, shots that I would'nt even lift the gun up to. And he'll take shots like that regulary. Mind you he tells me that he's struggles with shots below 25 yards, & I don't usually have trouble with those. :thumbs: But like you said in a previous post Cranfield,"it's not what you got, but the way that you use it" I wish I could shoot half as good as that!!!!... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted June 19, 2002 Report Share Posted June 19, 2002 That is probably an awseome wildfowling weapon with those chokes. I knew a chap who shot an old Charles Boswell 30" sbs choked full and threequarter on a high bird pheasant shoot. He hit "impossible" birds. On walked-up days he used a different gun. He said that if he didn,t, every thing he shot got "casserolled". lazza, the fact that he misses at 25 yards with such tight choking, could give you a another answer to your "pigeons from behind" problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazza Posted June 19, 2002 Report Share Posted June 19, 2002 It's a good point Cranfield...........at the moment I use 1/4 & 1/2, & I'm not sure that it's down to the choking of the barrells thats the problem.............probably more the fact that the shot isn't going to the right place. Up until last year I used a skeet gun & at normal decoying distances, it was excellent. It's downfall was, when the birds became a bit wary & started skirting the pattern, the shot pattern was too spread to have any effect. Hence the multi choke, to give me an option to tighten the shot pattern. I think it's probably one of those "personal choice" things, & if your confident with what your doing,...stick with it! I'd still love to be able to knock'em down regulary at long range though.. :thumbs: ....................one day maybe............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hymax12 Posted June 19, 2002 Report Share Posted June 19, 2002 evining all not one to put the cat amongst the pigeons ,but just think of the guys yousing semi-autos only one barrle and one choke tube? The second shot with the same choke ? or even the third! :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted June 19, 2002 Report Share Posted June 19, 2002 Thats why they need all those shots. :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number 1 Posted June 20, 2002 Report Share Posted June 20, 2002 I AINT GOT ANY CHOKES IN MY GUN ITS JUST A OPEN BARREL AND I SEEN TO SHOOT WELL WITH THAT AND THATS FOR ALL GAME ALL YEAR ROUND Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted June 20, 2002 Report Share Posted June 20, 2002 number 1, what sort of gun do you have ? Has it been made with "open" chokes ,or do you have a multichoke and choose to have "open" chokes ? A friend of mine shoots very successfully with Imp Cyl. He doesn,t attempt many long range shots though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hymax12 Posted June 28, 2002 Report Share Posted June 28, 2002 :thumbs: Evining all well i youst to shoot with a guy who had a remington 1100 .Sat round our local pit shooting ducks you could not out shoot him ,out in the feild after pigeons he could not hit a thing! It was not untill he tryed to sell the gun that he found out their was 2" missing from the end of his gun! :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hymax12 Posted June 28, 2002 Report Share Posted June 28, 2002 :thumbs: Evining all well i youst to shoot with a guy who had a remington 1100 .Sat round our local pit shooting ducks you could not out shoot him ,out in the feild after pigeons he could not hit a thing! It was not untill he tryed to sell the gun that he found out their was 2" missing from the end of his gun! :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbitstopper Posted June 28, 2002 Report Share Posted June 28, 2002 Sorry to be a Pain but could someone tell what 1/4 choke is in american eg imp cyl thanks very much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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