Get the gun you plan on shooting and all the chokes you have for that gun. Go somewhere you can pattern it and put up a target for each choke, shoot, then compare. This is the only way you will know which choke shoots best with that gun and those loads.
Just buy 3 inch #4 buckshot and start killing everything you shoot at.
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3" #1s JEB headhunter choke out my m1
If you can find it, you need to try the Federal Premium with the Flight Control wad. That buckshot is hard to find. I have to order mine online. Different chokes in different guns pattern buckshot differently, but that Flight Control buckshot tends to throw the tightest patterns in nearly apples to apples comparison I have done.
I just found some at Able ammo and placed an order.
FWIW, I have NEVER found a combination that shot #1 buckshot consistently well. Sometimes a shot would pattern well. The next time it didn't. Always wanted to find a combination that worked though.
Last edited by CWPINST; 10-24-2014 at 08:14 PM.
If it ain\'t accurate at long distance, then the fact that it is flat shooting is meaningless.
you know what throws #1 well....a heavy duck model 12 with a 30 inch full choke barrel
almost too well
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The only advice I have for you is to not get bogged down in the details. Shoot a few rounds out of each choke, figure out which is the best, and then don't think about it anymore. Where you point the gun is way more important than anything else.
Last edited by Fish; 10-25-2014 at 02:35 PM.
Federal premium with flight control wad. And I've read u shouldn't use a choke with it so the was can do what I was designed to do.
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