You can also do it with no choke. Back in college I kept a single shot H&R behind the seat of my pickup. That particular gun was chambered for 3” shells, and I had lopped off the barrel at 18.5” and put a new bead front sight on it. I kept it with a butt-cuff full of slugs and buckshot for unanticipated emergencies.
It took some work, but many were the days I would grab a box of trap loads and a cup of coffee and run out to my dove spot at dawn and pick up a limit of dove before work. Just takes practice. Oh, and since it weighed about 4 lbs and had no recoil pad, it also helped if one had a certain, um, insensitivity to recoil.
These days I hunt with a 21” 12ga 3” Stoeger Coach Gun for almost everything. I picked it up because when disassembled it fit in the saddlebags of my motorcycle, it was choked IC/M, it was nickel plated (weatherproof) and CHEAP. I’ve taken everything from dove to geese, rabbits and coyotes to wild boar, and it has gone with me all around the country. It is also my primary bear defense gun in Alaska when fishing. My friends call it my “pimp gun” because of the nickel plating, even though I cover it up with camouflage tape during hunting season. My primary hunting partner calls it “the crumpler” after seeing me drop wild hogs with it, though.
