It shouldn't be a contentious issue. Cylinder pretty well covers it---for me. Choke was never mentioned in the fishing village of some great gunners where I grew up. "Hard-shooting" was foremost in their lexicon. I knew nothing of choke until I moved to cities and began shooting shotgun and rifle competitively on provincial and national teams.
One size doesn't fit all, of course. A qualifying word of my post was "generally." I have only two guns cylinder, both right barrels, both original: 1889 Parker 16 gauge hammer 0 frame and 1915 field grade L.C. Smith 20 gauge. The rest are IC/M, changed from M/F or F/F. There are no full chokes. I try to keep shots within 40 yards. (All were this season.)
I grew up in a culture of subsistence living where to lose a bird was poor management. I'd be a tyrant if king: no duck or goose hunting without a dog. That's part of my notion of cylinder, luring birds within range, not stretching it. Gunning on my property or within a kilometre for ducks and geese is so good I don't need more---generally.
