How many and what are the names of the different choke companies?

[gobblingghost]

I know of sumtoy. indian creek, pure gold, jebs. rhino. comp n choke, truglo, tightwad, jellyhead, hevi shot, mad max, undertaker, kicks, trulock.  Is there any others I have forgotten?

[Rockhound]

wilson precision, briley, strangler, colonial arms,

[01Foreman400]

Patternmaster, Final Strut, Carlson's, Truglo and H.S.

[hookedspur]

Swarm, hastings

[gobblingghost]

So far there is 24. I think after turkey season I going to do a test.  I think I'll try and shoot every choke, with the same gun, and same lot # of shells. My idea is to test all turkey choke that you can with Hevi shot 3" #7 @ 40 yrds with the same gun. Also cleaning the barrel between shots. I think that will give everybody a idea about the chokes they want to try in their gun.

[coyotetrpr]

That will be a pretty tall and expensive order. What gun are you going to use?

[gobblingghost]

I already have several of the chokes already. I either use my SBE or my buddies Stoger 2000

[coyotetrpr]

It would seem that by the time you are done you will have a pretty definitive answer as to the best choke for your gun. Good luck and happy shooting.

[MossbergMike]

You have your work cut out for  you but like it was said above it will be pretty definitive about the best choke for those two guns anyway.

[Gooserbat]

Balistic Specialties aka Angleport. 

These are some nice chokes that do a great job.

[allaboutshooting]

So far there is 24. I think after turkey season I going to do a test.  I think I'll try and shoot every choke, with the same gun, and same lot # of shells. My idea is to test all turkey choke that you can with Hevi shot 3" #7 @ 40 yrds with the same gun. Also cleaning the barrel between shots. I think that will give everybody a idea about the chokes they want to try in their gun.

That was the idea that caused me to start All About Shooting which became http://www.allaboutshooting.com several years later.

I bought all of the then commercially produced chokes, in all of the exit diameters and over the next several years acquired the different brands of guns with all the available barrel lengths.

As new chokes came on the market, I bought them and as new shells came, I did the same thing.

When some chokes went off the market or people lost interest in them, I quit working with them and concentrated on the newer more popular models. I have records for most of the work with them however.

When still target shooting came to my attention, I became involved and through that, met many of the choke tube manufacturers, shotshell makers and then the engineers that designed them. That also helped me to see how different chokes were working for other shooters and to compare my results with theirs.

I've done that over many years, in different parts of the U.S. and in a lot of different weather conditions. I have lost count of the numbers of thousands of rounds of turkey loads I've fired in the last couple of decades.

All of that led to helping with the design of a few turkey chokes, prototype work, evaluation of outdoors items and a few other assorted things associated with shooting that I do now.

It's been interesting over the years to see some chokes come and go. Some have remained popular, some have fallen out of favor and others still sell but you just don't read much about them any more.

I've seen just about as much passion expressed for turkey chokes as anything and watched this sport grow to what it is today, something we could never have imagined when I started hunting those birds.

You just never know where an interest in choke tubes and shotshells may take you.

Best of luck to you in your quest. I think you'll find it to be fun, very interesting, time consuming and that you'll learn a lot from the experience.

Thanks,
Clark

[gobblingghost]

thanks for the encouragment Clark. I want to do this after turkey season. I have several friends that shoot chokes that will fit these two guns. I think it will be interesting to see how close the different chokes truely are. I've had articles published before so I might try and have this published to. I plan on miking every choke to see what the true exit diameter is.

[bowhunter32]

?...lol..wish i had yur money...

[gersus]

There is Northwind too.

Why do all that when Sumtoy is all you need?