Hastings .640 choke

[bamabeards]

I am using a benelli 12ga 28'' barell with a hastings .640 choke with no ports. Does anyone recomend a shot size?

[SKFOOTER]

Federal HW 7's.

[3" 870 Shell Shucker]

With a .640 choke in any gun, I'd say #7.5 and #6 Lead.

.640 is normally recommended for card shooting / turkey shoots with Light Loads only.

There are exceptions to this, but most Turkey chokes for use with Heavy turkey loads are not that tight.

[allaboutshooting]

I am using a benelli 12ga 28'' barell with a hastings .640 choke with no ports. Does anyone recomend a shot size?

That's a "lead only" choke and back before tungsten-based shot became popular, that was a very popular choke for the 3" HV Winchester shells with 1.75 oz of #6 shot. It also worked well with the 2 oz. "magnum" load of #6 shot from Winchester.

If I were shooting that choke today, I'd go with the White Lightning shells with 1 5/8 oz. of #6 shot. It's the best lead load I've personally shot.

Thanks,
Clark

[bamabeards]

Thanks guys!

[bushwhacker]

I have a friend that uses that choke in an 870 special purpose with 3.5-2-5 Winchester hv's and he says it patterns very well at forty yards. I have never seen the pattern and don't know what kind of numbers he's getting, but I know he never has crippled birds and he fills both tags every year with that combo. I have the same gun he has but with a Hastings .650 and it does good with the win 3.5-2-5's also. I'm going to run some 6's through it this weekend, I think I'll have a little better numbers. But I can't complain about the way the 5's pattern through this choke. Low 100's in ten at 40.