Shotgun chokes

[skeet]

Mr16...I have to agree with you. I have a couple of polychoke equipped guns. One is supposedly a factory equipped M-12 12 ga. Winchester did lots of wierd things..The other is a really nice solid rib 20 ga M-12...They really do be ugly. Cutts comps never bothered me too much though. Just saw way too many of 'em on all kinds of guns. I have a really nice Rem 31 solid rib gun with a cutts... I actually used it years ago duckin..but the guys I was hunting with told me either the gun hadda go..or I did. It was LOUD in a duck blind. The best(in my opinion) of the choke thingies back them was a Pachmayr Power Pac.about on a par with the cutts but slimmer and the choke went into the expansion chamber rather than out like a Cutts. Were quite often found on one of the smoothest pump guns you'll ever find.. The JC Higgins Model 20. Made by High Standard. A friend has about 10 of 'em and he can shoot 'em. You can hardly see him pump 'em. Speaking of Cutts..have you ever seen an adjustable Cutts choke tube.. I have a couple..Like the Polychoke..they did work

Now as to getting a gun to shoot either tighter or more open by load adjustment will work...but it isn't the easiest thing to do and sometimes you have to go to extremes to get it to work..such as spreader loads. I made some that worked ok..musta made 3 or 4 hundred of 'em. Didn't use 'em enough to worry about all the work that went into 'em. Made 'em for shootin teal in tight areas...and I had some Remington spreader loads..that just didn't and some Winchesters that did..way too much. If you like the frustration of doing it..ok. But they just weren't consistent enough to make 'em worthwhile...except for one load. I made up a load with Alcan 7 a rem 57 primer in a Rem or Peters paper case..with enough newspaper as wdding to make the shell bulk up right. They shot great almost cylinder patterns at 25 yds for shootin ducks...but I darn near burned the marsh off when some of my burning news print caught the darn marsh grass on fire. If the tide hadn't of been in....it woulda been UGLY. Had to go out and throw water on the darn thing with the boat bailer. Onea them re-pressed memories ya don't usually want to spread around. I was right embarrassed