I think that you'll find that you have a lot fewer times when you're just SURE that you should have broke the bird when you didn't if you go with full choke. My average rose from about 21/25 to 23-24/25 when I did. And the ability to read your breaks really help a lot to see where your problems are. I don't shoot as much as I should due to the costs ($3.75/box of shells and $4/round adds up quick), and I'd love to join the leagues if I could afford the time and money, but with school don't have either as much as I'd need.

I do get a kick out of showing up at the trap club with my BPS and schooling some guy with a $3000 purpose built trap gun. I never gloat, but I do get a little kick out of seeing the looks on their faces when I beat them round after round! Must be the blinders, I think! Just goes to show that it's not about the gun so much as the guy behind the trigger. I will admit that my Browning does shoot very nice pattern, and fits me about perfectly, so that probably helps, but I didn't shell out $3000+ for it either! Not to begrudge all guys with high dollar trap guns, because there are some guys that are very, very good, but I do think that many have them just to fit in or because they think they "need" such a gun to shoot well. To each their own, right?

Mike