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I have a damascus barreled sxs hammergun that does not have any choke in it that I would like to shoot Sporting clays with. I am thinking about haveing jug chokes put in it but I have heard that jug chokeing in a cartridge gun won't work like it does in a muzzleloader. Has anyone tried it and did it work? Back boreing is out because my bores are already.735. If I could get .010 it would be good enough. : Bonehill

I do not know if it was luck or the choke, but I made a choke for a friends 1100 that was jugged and he went 286 straight with it. Shame my lathe can only machine imperial threads I shoot Berettas now so have to buy chokes.
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It works fine. My very best, most even patterning skeet barrel has .007 jug. The recessed section starts about 3/4" behind the muzzle and is about an inch long. The gun is a Rem 1100.

Bonehill, I had a shotgun with no choke in the right barrel. Mike Orlen jug choked the gun for me.I didn't spend alot of time recording pattern tests but it did shoot tighter with the jug choke. My understanding is that the length of the jug only has to be as long as the shot column in the barrel to have the same effect as a back bored barrel.The barrel wall has be thick enough in front of the choke to allow some metal to be removed.
Good luck, Dave

While I agree a jug choke should work fine, if more choke effect is wanted you might try contacting Mike Orlen about a soldered in choke sleeve.

I'm not one who can speak from experience about jug choking a modern SXS, but I do have a muzzleloading New England Fowler with a 51 inch barrel jug choked thirty thousandts. It is deadly on turkeys at 40-42 yards which is looong for a muzzleloader. Personally I can't see how it would make any difference wheather the piece was a shell gun or a muzzleloader! Why would the ignition system have any effect on the shot column moving down a barrel?

One thing I can say speaking from experience in shooting a flintlock SXS that should hold for a hammergun also....if you are going to have one barrel choked and one cyl bore, you will find it much easier to have the right barrel choked and the left cyl bore. The reason is that unless you back both hammers before you take a shot, it is much easier and quicker to reach up and back the right hammer for the second shot than it is to reach over the right hammer to back the left one. A very good friend suggested this to me when I recently had another set of barrels made for my flintlock, and he was totally right!

Jug choking works the same for a cartridge gun as a muzzle loader. The slick thing about having a jug choke in a ML is that it loads as easily as a cylinder bore ML. A ML with a regular choke is a PITA to load the wads past the choked muzzle. No such problem with a jug choke. The muzzle is the same size as most of the bore.
Quite a few years ago, I bought on of the first three .410 Citori skeet guns to come to Bower's, in L. A. It was choked cyl. and cyl. Not good. The old Purbaugh gang jug choked it to about Mod. and Mod. Only negative was that wad plastic liked to build up in the jugged area, requiring frequent cleaning. The results however, were great.