Why are single barrel shotguns fully choked?

[vole]

I use Hushpower sg for daytime shooting. They,ve all been f/c which I find ok for rabbit,squirrel but not so good for flying quarry.Is there a reason s/b guns are full choke ? Any reason not to have it reduced to 1/4 ? Thanks very much.

[Dunkield]

Cost maybe, just one barrel to make?

 

Make it FC and then if you don't want that you can pay to have it opened up, easier than trying to restict it if they made it 1/4 and you wanted 3/4's for instance.

[Big_Sam]

With the hushpowers they need to be fully choked to stop the shot hitting the silencer baffles.

 

 

I suppose the reasoning was that a gunsmith could open it up to what you need, adding choke is much harder.

Edited February 29, 2008 by Big_Sam

[Zapp]

There was an article in sporting gun not long ago where a guy was using a fully hushed 1/2 choke barrel AL391 so I dont see any reason why they have to be full choke.

 

ZB

[drut]

Hi: My Pedrettii 12g hushpower is opened up to 1/4 choke & works fine. The passage through the baffles had to be opened up to cater for this but AFAIK is OK standard for down to 1/2 . I use mine nearly exclusively so it made sense for me as I could not come to terms with the full choke: either missed or couldn't eat it.

Regards:D.R.

[vole]

Thanks guys.I had been given mixed messages about opening the chokes of my hushpower from different gunsmiths but if it works for real than thats good enough for me.