I took the leap of faith this year and hunted pheasants with a prewar Merkel 200E 12 gauge choked Cyl & IC. I must not be as good as I thought I was because my Drahts brought back a higher percentage of dead birds from the first shot of that Cyl barrel this year then the past few years. I must have been fringing close birds with a tighter choke. I worked up a load for the IC barrel that patterns like a modified.