Bennington,NH in the late 70s I dropped one with I think no#4 shot full choke..I've shared this before...I was totally amazed Ironically with a borrowed 12 ga. too!
None yet, unfortunately. I hope to change all that this year. Loaded some shells with 1 1/8 oz #6 and longshot though. Might help me when I misjudge the nasty boogers!
61 days before season opens!!!!!!!
Bob
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Seems like all my shots are long range, I am going to use 1 1/4 #6 heavy field loads out of my 24 inch barreled 12 gauge ithaca, I cant decide which choke to use, I have flush mounted chokes but I want to get an extended choke and they are not cheap so I might get a light modified since most all my shoots are in that 25-40 yard range. Season starts July 1 at noon.
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Seems like all my shots are long range, I am going to use 1 1/4 #6 heavy field loads out of my 24 inch barreled 12 gauge ithaca, I cant decide which choke to use, I have flush mounted chokes but I want to get an extended choke and they are not cheap so I might get a light modified since most all my shoots are in that 25-40 yard range. Season starts July 1 at noon.
In the last few years the only "predictable" is that I know my crows are coming from the east and the best I can hope for is that the wind don't make them whip by like arrows!
Otherwise I can hope my choke is adequate. If you got that down to a science then you got it MADE!!
-- Edited by oldshotty on Thursday 21st of June 2018 01:48:41 AM
Hello Sir, If you can get you hands on a Carlson "long range" 7.10" or similar diameter you should have no problem reaching out to 60 or better on your Hail Mary's..
Not a sponsor or anything but I have tried quite a few chokes up to the $140 dollar ones and many of them did not out perform the stock Benilli chokes at 50+ yards. I tried the patternmaster ones after seeing a field sport pigeon shooting video featuring them but the results i saw were terrible on a pattern sheet. Retrieving the wad showed it heavily perforated with the patternmaster with the "nubs" in the choke catching drastically on one side of the wad and literally pulling all the shot to the direction of most catch on the wad by the choke nub... not an ideal shot placement to say the least. Same shells with the Carlson that has a uniform circular tapering pattern in the choke seemed to pressure the wad equally on all sides and not cause this issue.
Last weekend i was out early AM using some #6 Challenger (Canadian made) shot shells 1 3/8 2 3/4's and a pair came in around 4AM, instead of sticking together the female banked hard left at 40 yards and i dropped her before she could get far (always females first for pest control for me) Male banked hard right at the same time and rode the wind at the same time and he had a good 20 yards away more on her distance and i popped off a Hail Mary at him and he slowed speed, tired to land in a tree at 70 yards and failed dropped to the ground where the Elk stomped him...
When i retrieved the bird from the pen I noticed at least 3 impact on the leg which was mostly missing and even hitting the bird in the rear from that downward angle was enough to do it at 60-65 yards.
Probably no the most repeatable shot but it does attest to the groupings with this choke for me. First i owned one for my Weatherby PA-08 and after that performance i put it up against a few other more expensive ones and with both lead and steel ammo the Carlson seems to do the job for me.
As an FYI I have moved to this choke for Geese as well as it patterns steel shot like a champ as well, I haven't found any better available out here.
oldshotty wrote: the best I can hope for is that the wind don't make them whip by like arrows!
Try a Crow distress call during higher wind and you can almost count on them riding the wind directly to you and at high speed. They come in so fast you may mistake a few for blackbirds due to not having enough time to size them up. lol
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