Quote from: Browning4140 on June 19, 2016, 10:15:25 AM
Looking for a good choke for my 870 super mag. Planning on shooting WLBXR #5 or 6 in 3.5". Anyone have any recommendations?
There are a number of chokes that do very well through those guns with those shells.
I wrote,
"Choking Winchester's Long Beard XR" for
Turkey Country magazine. For that piece, I shot 92 shells, through 7 different guns and 32 different chokes. You can see those results here
http://www.nwtf.org/hunt/article/choking-winchester's-long-beard-xrYou should note that I shot those under "hunting conditions" and during the summer months, you can expect to see much higher numbers that those in the article. I wanted to be as realistic as possible and not use inflated numbers in warmer conditions. Those shells are very temperature sensitive.
I'll add just a few observations based not only upon that study but upon having fired hundreds and hundreds of those shells since that time. It's a long range shell. It shoots very tight patterns at all ranges. it can be an exercise in futility to try and get more open patterns at ranges under 40 yards. A more open choke does not always mean a more open pattern.
I shot those same combinations of chokes and guns using Hevi-13 shells, and you can see the results here
http://allaboutshooting.com/blogs/blog/98747591-turkey-choke-evaluation-hevi-13-shotshellsThe really noteworthy item about both of those studies is the number of targets that had few if any 2" or larger gaps. It's really all about the quality of the patterns and not the number of pellet strikes that makes the difference in the turkey woods, as we all know.
Just as a matter of interest, you may want to look at a much smaller study of Federal 3rd Degree shells here
http://allaboutshooting.com/blogs/blog/98747783-federal-3rd-degree-evaluationThere are lots of choices out there.
Thanks,
Clark
