doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com What are quail 1 quail 2 chokes?

I had a shop vac clearly marked '4Q2' in large stenciled letters. Does that count?

Must be the planetary alignment, or something;-) Not sure if we have entered the twilight zone or the silly season.

I'd think the better markings for a bird gun double might be 'galldarnit' and 'gotcha';-) For those hunting w/o dogs perhaps a 'WTF' choke might prove of more use. And then there is the 'whoa!' a specialty choke for those w/ill behaved covey busting dogs. It is more tightly constricted than the typical Q2.

Ever notice how some of these old double gun bird hunters have two extra cartridges stuck between their forearm hand fingers?

Kidding aside, if you are not going to the grease plate and firing a series of a couple of quickly mounted shots at a 'spot' &/or shooting some low gun skeet w/both barrels loaded, it doesn't matter in the least what the chokes are marked.

Joe Wood's 'crazy skeet' or something similar is as good a game as any to see if you can handle the gun well for bird hunting and that's all that really matters, assuming the shot size is adequate for the game.

Addendum: In a similar vein to the Q1 & Q2 markings; was a time you'd see trap shooters with double guns whose chokes had been 'specially regulated for trap doubles'. It was the more marketable way of saying the chokes had been opened.