Under choked or over choked?

I once had an ancient Merkel OU that had straight cylinder in the lower barrel. I was concerned about that cylinder barrel but it worked much better than I thought it would. I had been fringing closer birds with a tighter choke and the birds shot with that cylinder barrel were coming down dead. I think many hunters use too much choke.
 
Windshooter said:
I once had an ancient Merkel OU that had straight cylinder in the lower barrel. I was concerned about that cylinder barrel but it worked much better than I thought it would. I had been fringing closer birds with a tighter choke and the birds shot with that cylinder barrel were coming down dead. I think many hunters use too much choke.
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When I started using improved cylinder in my shotguns, I started getting a lot more peasants. I also use full choke in these old Browning guns. They don't have screw in chokes in the '50s.
 
Plannerman said:
Fantastic ammo IMO, been shooting #5s out of Franchi Instinct IC/M for about 5 years.
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I bought a case of 20 gauge 3" 6 shot because they were on sale. I'll buy again!
Don't feel like I need 3", but then I convince myself that it's better to have and not need than need and not have!
My confidence did grow with these, and I've had some really good and surprising long shot kills. The confidence continues when I have had more recoveries than I should have had on cripples (thanks to an excellent marking and tracking hunting companion.) I think I've only lost 3 cripples all year that I blame on shooting too far away. I've had that twice that many close birds that were lost due to heavy cover when the dog didn't see the bird down and/or poor shot placement.
I hate losing any birds...
 
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