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I have traded in my benelli pump, which I could n't hit a thong with for a nice old aya boxlock 3" magnum with 30" barrels choked full and full. It will be used mostly for wildfowl on the esturies - widgeon and geese, with non toxic shot (but probably not steel). My feeling is full / full is a bit tight and should have it opened up to 1/4 and 1/2. It is a fixed choke gun so cannot change back. Any thoughts please.
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First I'd measure the bores then I'd pattern it...then if I thought it shot too tight I'd open it up to 3/4 choke.
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If only shooting steel and not one of the softer non toxs, I'd open to IC & mod.
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Although I am not a fan this seems a perfect case where screw in choke tubes are appropriate. Open early or when the birds are decoying. Tight when you are pass shooting.
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HeymSR20, You won't do any better with the AYA than you did with the Benelli until you get those thongs off your mind!  Stan
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Thnaks Gents for your thoughts - I am hving the opened up at the time as the cast is correctly adjusted - why does every gun I like be cast for cack handed right handed shots!!!
And Stan don't worry have removed the thongs off my mind and out of the cabinet!! Don't worry it was only a short lived flirtation (OK three seasons) with the darker side of mass produced plastic based nastiness. I needed something that would shoot steel and my old duck gun had finally got to the stage when it was very loose and being a cheap gun not worth spending any money on.
I got the Benelli for not a huge amount of money, have sold it for pretty much what I paid for it and will be about even for what I paid for the AyA and the work I have had done on it so am happy.
It seems over here in the UK everybody is going for plastic stocked jammatics for wild fowl, and in deer stalking you don't have the right kit unless its heavy barreled stainless steel, plastic stock mounted on a piopd with dustbin sized moderator on the end and scope more suited for at distant planets with. You should see the comments you get if you use a 6lb combination gun with a 6 power scope!
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I wouldn't open the chokes, I'd just shoot birds a little farther away.
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It seems over here in the UK everybody is going for plastic stocked jammatics for wild fowl, and in deer stalking you don't have the right kit unless its heavy barreled stainless steel, plastic stock mounted on a piopd with dustbin sized moderator on the end and scope more suited for at distant planets with. You should see the comments you get if you use a 6lb combination gun with a 6 power scope!
So true. The Isles do seem to have that disease and it is epidemic here. Is there not an antidote? 
Good Shooting
T.C.
The Green Isle
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