The honest answer is do what you can afford.
Hint, Miroku has changed their “High pheasant” model to :
Changeable chokes
And,
Thick rubber recoil pad.
I get the inference they are adapting that model to not bulge from heavy steel loads. And hopefully not split as many well figured stocks.
It should be obvious in the dynamics of the new model.
It is a model that had incredible world wide appeal, and now is just another Browning multi choke gun.
I have broken many flush mount removeable chokes shooting steel 4’s and larger at ducks. Many, as in 6-8 screw in’s imp-cyl and tighter. They crack, and get hard to turn out.
Extended chokes with thicker walls and different alloys, never.
Bulged a few barrels along the way as well.
I am not going to feed larger steel through a shotgun I value.
There ARE fixed choke modern shotguns that can handle big steel pellets for high birds. Longthorne comes to mind. And it seems Perazzi as well.
But I think the days of high birds with the old “best” guns are soon done.
And it’s mostly driven by public outcry over lead in the food supply.
Last edited by ClapperZapper; 06/26/21 01:38 PM.
