Friday, April 18, 2014

Chokes

It is spring gobbler season. Consequently, we've had a lot of people looking for turkey chokes and have been sorting through the odd assortment of used and mis-packaged chokes every shop seems to have. I've found this chart useful.

12 Gauge
20 Gauge
28 Gauge   .410" Bore   American
English
Browning
Italian
Perazzi
Percentage
Constriction
Constriction
Constriction   Constriction   Designation
Designation
Codes
Codes
Codes
Pattern
.000" -.001"
.000" - .001"
.000"   .000"   cyl
true cylinder
***
C****
0
40%
.002" - .006"
.002" - .004"
.001" - .004"   .001" - .002"   skeet
impr cylinder
**$
S
1
45%
.007" -.013"
.005" - .011"
.005" - .007"   .003" - .006"   imp cyl
quarter
**-
****
3
55%
.014" -.023"
.012" - .019"
.008" - .014"   .007 - .012"   mod
half
**
***
4
60%
.024" -.031"
.020" - .026"
.015" - .020"   .013" - .017 "   imp mod
three quarter
*-
**
6
65%
.032" -.040"
.027" - .033"
.021" - .027"   .018" - .021"   full
full
*
*
9
70%
.040"+
.034"+
.028"+   .022"+   ex. full






10
75%

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