Skeet fundamentals

[dicion]

Also, would you happen to know how much chokes cost and where is the best place to find them?

I have a Full Choke for any 12ga that'll take a Rem-Choke threaded choke up for offer in the PIF Thread, so in this case, Free! XD
(Somehow I ended up with Two!)


I'd love to go shoot some clays again someday.. but I'd have to convert my Riot Gun back to bird-mode for it... or at least swap the barrel back. That wouldn't be too hard tho.

[couzin]

After studying the pic there, do you mean it would be "easier" to hit with an Improved Cylinder...? or am I reading it wrong?

On a skeet field - your best shot with the 12 ga is with a slight constriction (skeet or skeet 2). Cylinder is more open but still fine. The improved cylinder (sometimes called a skeet 2) is more constricted than the skeet choke but you should see no big difference. Progressively tighter chokes tend to make it not necessarily harder to break clays - but you better be a dang fine shot and have the leads just right. Gets real interesting on station 3, 4, 5 and 8. Some shooters start going to slightly more constricted chokes as they go down in gauge (20ga, 28ga) or bore (.410).

On the trap field - tighter chokes (light mod, mod, improved mod) are norms - especially when you start handicap rounds. But - that is different game.

Five stand and sporting clays - have lots of different chokes handy and a speed wrench...

[couzin]

Also, would you happen to know how much chokes cost and where is the best place to find them?

Depends on what gun you have. Could be $15 and way up depending on who makes em and what you want (flush, extended, turkey strut xx full, whatever). I have Brownings but also use some cheaper Carlson's and they seem fine. Midway, CTD, Cabelas, Brownells, Gander, Bass Pro (althought the last time I was at the Garland store they had dang little) all have chokes.

[txcshooter]

Thanks for the info AndyC. Also thanks to Dicion, but I have a Mossberg 20ga p/a, don't laugh.....youth model. Appreciate it though.