Open up the choke today increased the numbers U lots.

[agturkey]

Ditched the SSX and went with Carlson....avg shot in 10 inch picked up avg 60 pellets.  U lots Clean Gun 40 yards 140 AVG. shot after shot Fed HW.   I have liked the Carlson since day one no matter how many chokes or lots I play with the Carlson is most proven hunting choke pattern for me in the Fed HW 7 era.  All smiles test it out next week in TN.

[savduck]

Man that's great to hear. William had said some of the U lots he had were liking a little more open choke.

Is that Carlson a 570

[agturkey]

Yes

[CntrlPA]

Thats good to hear. I bought 4 boxes of the V lot recently. The shop had a bunch of the U lot in but i was hesitant to buy it with the reports i was hearing.

[R AJ]

I have U lots and found that a 575 in the inv+ 28" bbl gave good pattern numbers . That is one reason that I maintain having more than one choke for each gun. Shell / shot/powder/wad changes do make a difference.  Too many super tight chokes leave little wiggle room, even from size 7 to size 6 or 5 shot.

Great post. Thanks for the heads up.

[nyhunter]

well maybe there's hope yet I have a .575, .572, .550 I hope one of them will pattern the u lot that i have. I'll post my results asap.

[01Foreman400]

I looked thur my stash and couldn't find any U lots.  I bought all of mine this year.


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[sevetts]

i have yet to top a carlson in any 20ga ive shot when shooting federals. if your gonna shoot federals out of 20ga ya gotta try a non ported carlson! sounds like turkeys beware!

[JKF]

My Carlson is bad medicine on turkeys out of my 1187 youth model

[R AJ]

Yes

Is it a special order? Carlsons has most at 575 on the website except for the Optima that is 580.

None that I saw were 570.

[surehuntsalot]

RAJ 
I have a .575 that simply loves the Federal HW in my 870 youth