This has been an interesting thread, hearing different views and the defenses of them, but I am afraid that I may have been misunderstood. In light of that I want to state plainly that I am not against open choked guns, when used in their proper place. First shot on covey rises, woodies coming full bore into a tiny beaver pond, and woodcock shooting in the places I hunt them are all prudent uses of the more open chokes.
My problem is with the blanket statements like, "nobody needs any choke over skeet constriction", or "full choked guns are useless with today's ammunition", or the statement that Michael McIntosh wrote in the article for SSM where he flatly stated that "choke is obsolete with today's ammo".
I have no problem with a man stating that he doesn't need any choke in his guns for his type of hunting, as King stated. I'd never tell anybody else what they need unless they asked my advice. But, I sure as heck don't want them telling me what I don't need, either.
SRH
