Ok, guys I am going to take a little hit to the ego, but its all in the search of being smarter. I pride myself on researching of bolt rifles and reloading. And spend an enormous amount of time reloading and shooting. But when it comes to shotgunning, I don't. In fact, I have only patterned a shotgun once, and it really wasn't scientific or usefull. We were just trying to find out the penetration of steel shot compared to lead.

I mean I go bird hunting, duck hunting, and turkey hunting, and squirrel hunting. But I, nor do any of my Ky kin go out and pattern a shotgun. Alot of us use older shotguns with fixed choked barrels. Like I used an 40 year old Auto-5 until 6 years ago and I decided to retire it. One of my uncles uses a Winchester pump nickol plated, that is older than the hills. Now, I use an 870 Express for turkey and 1187 for duck or pheasants and squirrel, and Browning Gold for deer and duck. All have thier time and purpose. I mean when I go hunting, I just grab one and take it hunting, and come back with pheasants, turkey and squirrel, or whatever. I guess ignorance is bliss.

But now, I see these high dollar chokes for turkey, skeet or whatever.

How will they help me be a better shotgunner?

Do they change your POI, or have a better pattern?

I mean, every manufacturer has a spec for the amount of pellets at a certain distance in a certain circle to define a "choke" whether modified, or full or whatever. Is the reason for patterning, that the choke maybe made faulty and you don't get this pattern?

Does the high dollar chokes change the string length?

I really am searching for knowledge on this and want to hear not opinion but from people who take thier shotgunning seriously.