The OP was about his watching UK shooting shows on YouTube, his noticing Gerwyn Jones mentioning very tight chokes for “High birds” while shooting steel shot through a new pair of Perazzi’s.
High birds being a specialized subset of UK driven shooting.
The program wasn’t about shooting in the US.
At an 8-1 ratio, Jones would be running 150-250, heavy, large steel shot, cartridges through the Perazzi’s chokes multiple days a season.
On a good Pigeon day, 400. Though the shots would be closer, so smaller pellets typically used.
Probably not wise with the family Purdey’s.
Many of the readers here will probably have watched the Holland Holland videos, (or read the articles in Shooting Sportsman) were they explained that they can leave extra material anywhere they wish in their new barrels, (and with greater concentricity) using their new barrel boring technology, but also that they can’t do anything about their old guns other than re-barrel them.
Leaving additional material in the barrels to accommodate changeable chokes changes handling dynamics.
Miroku abandoning their fixed choke barrels on their break through model in the face of steel shot requirements is a monumental concession.
I think the OP’s surprise? at the choke constriction mentioned was warranted.
Jones will be giving up something somewhere.
