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I think with that post we have reached some common ground, Larry. Differing hunting styles and quarry changes needs a lot.

I respect everyone's opinions that have posted, even though I don't agree with everything. As I said earlier, "Different chokes for different folks".

All my best, Stan

This has been an interesting thread. I have a gun with zero choke, and one with f/f, and can't hit very well with either one. Somehow, I don't think the choke is to blame.

Gene you must be buying the same ammo as me.

Best,

Mike

Joe, given the designation of that particular choke, it obviously fits the user.

The development of choke did not really render cylinder obsolete. What it did was make a short range weapon into a slightly longer range weapon. But for most people, shooting flying remains a short range game regardless of choke, based more on the inherent difficulty of hitting a flying target rather than on the potential provided by the choke/load combination to deliver an effective pattern at greater range.

jOe,

Charlie Boswell (Comp-N-Choke designer and owner) and I are leaving for Arkansas, to duck hunt, early Monday morning. I'll be sure and tell him you said that. He will get a kick out of that, and I'll tell you why. Years ago he and I were going to shoot a round of sporting clays, and Charlie, being the innovative guy that he is, decided to shoot a Mossberg jammamatic with a XXXFull CnC in it, a gun he had never shot before. He shot the highest score he had ever shot on a round of sporting, at that time, a 97! And it really wasn't a soft course either, not tournament targets, but not soft.

Anecdotes aside, over the years I have found that many times a strange gun (if it fits you reasonably well) will shoot you an above average score on the first round. It is a strange phenomenon, and is exactly opposite from what common sense would tell you would happen, but I have seen it, and done it, many times.

Man, I DO love to see what a tight choked 1 1/8 oz. load of 8s does to a well centered clay. Poof!

SRH

It's not a strange gun....and not just a one time deal.

Excuse me. Then maybe you should be shooting pigeons with it, instead of shooting the breeze about it.

SRH

Stan, I think part of it is that you tend to bear down and try a bit harder with a new gun. I think most of us have had what I'd call honeymoon periods with new guns . . . and then performance settles back to normal.

Larry you ever have a Honeymoon for 12 years ?

Well, I've now been happily married for better than twice that . . . but it took me a couple false starts before I found the right one. Kinda like guns.