Originally Posted By: gold40

How about this for a guideline on "opening chokes" :

If you could easily sell the shotgun tomorrow for at least $3k, leave it alone...otherwise, open it if you want to use it.

gold40



Probably need more caveats than price. I bought a lightly used Perazzi MX 8 trap gun about 10 years ago. It was choked F and F. I did not want to screw choke it, as I had another like it with thin wall Brileys. I had the chokes opened to .020" and 020". It is my go to sporting clays gun when I want to shoot the best score I possibly can. Point? It was easily worth over $3K.

I would tend towards rarity as being a greater consideration than price. Another example. I have a couple Iver Johnson Special Trap single barrel trap guns. They will not bring over $500 each on a good day. I paid way less than that for them. They are both choked around .040". I wouldn't open their chokes for anything.

SRH

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