Cutting Shotgun Barrels

[Mortblanc]

One of the things I recognized immediately upon viewing the targets was that any amount of choke in the barrel vastly improved the performance of the larger shot size!

I only showed the full choke and cylinder bores, but even the 1/4 choke barrel made a great improvement on pattern performance over the open choke.

I also have now tested 5 different open choke barrels and have not had more than 35% pattern from even the best. 4 of the 5 gave 25% pattern or less. That means that in a one ounce load of #8 shot 300 of the pellets are scattered to the winds and only 100 pellets land anywhere near where the bead is pointed.

Keep your chokes boys! They are effective controls on the efficiency of the gun you are shooting. Much more important that barrel length or rounds in a magazine.

In a SHTF situation if I look across an open space and see a man with a sawed off shotgun I am going to assume that I am relatively safe at 70 yards and not worry at 100 yards. If that same man has a long barreled gun that I believe might have a full choke I am not exposing myself even at the 100 yard range.

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There is not going to be an all around do everything shotgun round. There is no sense in even going there.