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Buckshot choke
- Thread starter davem
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Too bad it wasn't a Beretta or Benelli, a complete stock kit runs about twenty bucks plus shipping. My first trap gun was an 870 with a borrowed 30" barrel, and I build the stock up with cardborad & duct tape. Which move the POI about a foot higher than the POA (prefect for trap).
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Jim Watson
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About 30 years ago, the Police Marksman's Association tested buckshot and chokes.
They used an 870 with riot gun 18" cylinder bore, commercial slug barrel 20" IC, a 20" with Polychoke and a 20" with screw chokes, I think the Walker full thread style.
The very best (tightest) patterns were with Winchester 000, eight pellets in Grex filler, fired from the Improved Modified screw tube.
Things might be different with current shells, but the point was that buckshot responded to choke better than they expected.
Agree with the idea that the idea of buckshot is multiple hits, not scattershot to make up for poor aim.
They used an 870 with riot gun 18" cylinder bore, commercial slug barrel 20" IC, a 20" with Polychoke and a 20" with screw chokes, I think the Walker full thread style.
The very best (tightest) patterns were with Winchester 000, eight pellets in Grex filler, fired from the Improved Modified screw tube.
Things might be different with current shells, but the point was that buckshot responded to choke better than they expected.
Agree with the idea that the idea of buckshot is multiple hits, not scattershot to make up for poor aim.