What choke do you guys use (ducks)?
12-07-2003, 04:46 PM
#12
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 70
RE: What choke do you guys use (ducks)?
Critch,
Look in your Benelli manual about the chokes with when shooting steel shot. I found in my in my Franchi O/U manual that using steel shot basically tightens the pattern so I/C becomes Modified and Modified becomes Full. This may be the case in your gun as well.
Look in your Benelli manual about the chokes with when shooting steel shot. I found in my in my Franchi O/U manual that using steel shot basically tightens the pattern so I/C becomes Modified and Modified becomes Full. This may be the case in your gun as well.
12-07-2003, 07:51 PM
#13
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 5
RE: What choke do you guys use (ducks)?
Thanks for all of the replies...I would've posted back sooner, but I had to re-register...I changed my password and could never log in again.
I went out and patterned my gun this weekend. I shot 2s and 4s in both M and IC from about 25-30 yards. I am definitely going to use Modified. The IC had a ton of holes in the pattern and was the reason (I think) that I hadn't been getting clean kills in some of my shots on birds. The modified patterns were a lot more uniform and still had a fairly large spread even at closer distances. By the way, I am shooting a Benelli Nova with the factory chokes and the shells were 3 inch Winchester Xpert 4s and 2s. I also have been shooting Federal 3 inch Ultrashocks.
Anyway, thanks for all of the advice, and I would really suggest to all of you beginners (like myself) that you go out and take the time to pattern your gun so that you know what kind of spread you are throwing up in the air!
I went out and patterned my gun this weekend. I shot 2s and 4s in both M and IC from about 25-30 yards. I am definitely going to use Modified. The IC had a ton of holes in the pattern and was the reason (I think) that I hadn't been getting clean kills in some of my shots on birds. The modified patterns were a lot more uniform and still had a fairly large spread even at closer distances. By the way, I am shooting a Benelli Nova with the factory chokes and the shells were 3 inch Winchester Xpert 4s and 2s. I also have been shooting Federal 3 inch Ultrashocks.
Anyway, thanks for all of the advice, and I would really suggest to all of you beginners (like myself) that you go out and take the time to pattern your gun so that you know what kind of spread you are throwing up in the air!
