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- Choke Tubes Explained - Selecting the Right Choke Tube: Shotgun choke tube selection can be confusing for a lot of people. Choke tube selection can be even more confusing when throwing in the differences of target shooting vs hunting or lead vs steel shot. This video will give you a basic understanding of choke tubes and a few simple rules for the choke tube selection process!
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Aaron thank you. I am definitely a novice shotgun shooter and your presentation and explanations were digestible and cool.
Choke selection isn't rocket science but it can be confusing at first. Hope this helps you gain understanding and break more clays. Aaron
I just bought my new x full buck kicker love it
Great examples. If you get a chance would love to see another video like this but with buckshot.
Can u help me I have a Beretta outlander a 300
I was into hunting/shooting as a kid, and now in my thirties I have been getting back into it. I went trap shooting yesterday, and the gun club I went to had a lot of great, helpful members. I had a great time, and hit 12/25 my first time even firing my new shotgun. So I went to my local Dick's field and stream to get a choke tube for trap. The level of gatekeeping and douchebaggery I got trying to get advice at Dick's, they truly live up to their name. So, I'm just saying I appreciate the video! The guys at the club were super helpful, but I have a lot to learn with competition shooting. One simple question got guffaws and elitist attitude, I want to shoot, support 2nd amendment rights, maybe get back into hunting. You'd think I was at a fancy jewelry/clothing boutique with how elitist this boomer was acting (nothing against boomers, just for age reference). So thank you so much for this video! You taught me what the big box Dick's-head wouldn't.
Where did you get the choke tube case and can you shut it with all of them in there
Once you get use to a full it's a killer I use the kicks hf full in a sx4 for for clays and ducks
This video was awesome. Not super dense with fluff and straight to the point.. Great job!
thank you. Not many vids on choke tubes that explain it better than yours. Good job.
Thank you! I searched high and low for what you just presented. Now I am set!
Great video. I tend to use the extended choke tubes and I don't know why the manufacturer doesn't include them. I know, cost, but I am going to say that many of us end up spending extra for the extended chokes and don't ever use the standard chokes.
Frankly not only do manufacturers not include them for cost reasons but because you really just don’t need them to have a functional gun. Although I’m with you and I buy extended tubes whenever I can for my shotguns. You get a hair more velocity out of your ammo and more consistent patterns due to the smother transition for the given constriction of the choke vs a factory tube.
I'm not new to shooting but I've just picked up my benelli m4 and I've never owned a shot gun where I can add a choke. Plus I don't hunt. So this brief video sure did bring a lot of clarity to my questions. Thanks for the well informed video.
Billman Arsenal sells similar chokes for about half the price on Amazon and eBay
Thank you for the informative video! Excellent presentation!
So Well explained for beginners and those already shooting 👍
Love your videos keep up the good work
Awesome man...keep up the good work
Great informal video Aaron! Definitely learned more than i thought i had to learn about chokes,, I've always had better luck with full choke duck hunting (basically all I do), more BBs hitting the bird knocking it down a whole lot easier, I also seem to be one of those that takes too far of shots so thats where full helps haha, and seem to be more accurate with a full choke trap shooting, but everyone has their own preferences. Love the Carlson's tubes and your videos, keep it up!!
Very informative. Thank you.
Great video. Exactly what i was trying to learn about.
Glad we could help! Aaron
Excellent! Thank you for this awesome video, and all the effort it must have taken to put this together!
Good info Aaron, Merry Christmas!
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Great video, I learned alot and thank you for making it.
Start out with a cylinder tube until you’re hitting 75%+
Then step up Skeet, Improved, until you’re hitting 75-80% with a Light Modified. Stick with LM unless you have a really long bird use Mod or Impv Mod as a one off if you’d like.
Excellent video ✊🏾
although my current 12g isn't threaded for a choke tube ,there was a lot of useful info in this video should my next gun come prepped for one. appreciate your guidance.
This is the content that I was searching for. Thank you so much for the information you earn my subscription
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Y’all are awesome
Thanks Dawson! Your awesome yourself👍🏻. Aaron
Good video and info
Excellent.
A cool video would be comparing different brands of choke tubes and how they pattern. Like Rhinos, Müller, Teague, etc. That would be a cool video!
Great info! Opinions on other choke sizes like skeet, light modified, and improved modified that fill in the gaps between cylinder, improved cylinder, modified and full? I'm a beginner and looking at getting two extended choke tubes for my O/U to learn clay target shooting. From research i've done seems like skeet or IC for top and Modified for bottom barrel are where to begin.
Well done.
Did you guys build that stand that you attached the targets to? If so how did you make them
Nice vid, what about slugs? only use cylinder and modified?
Great topic to cover!.
Perhaps you can continue with shot size and powder choices.
Since this video seems to be aimed at beginning shooters, i highly doubt they’ll cover what powders should be used, however shotsize would be a good topic to cover.
When you say powder, are you meaning certain ammo charges and velocity or more from a reloading perspective? Aaron
@@gouldshooting At least the relationship of how powder affects power, pattern, etc. If reload is option for conversation, then wad too of course. But shot size, purpose. I'm guessing with Reeds as a sponsor their could be oppty to introduce reloading as hobby and add these topics. Btw, this is John Moore, Nathan's dad. Proud of you guys. Say hi to your dad for me.
Then how steel and lead fly differently
Is that the 3.5 inch sx4? What rounds are you cycling thru? Csnt get mine to cycle 1200fps
What you think about Gemini choke tubes from Italy?
When my son shot trap in high school he used a full choke with his savage stevens 555 over and under. That choke helped him dust them clays.
What gauge ?
12 gauge
I feel bad for your son, shooting trap on a regular basis with one of those 555’s. Those are hunting guns that are light weight to be carried in the field all day and really beat up a shooter because they just don’t have the mass to mitigate recoil like a heavier target shooting oriented over/under gun does.
@@chevyon37s Shove off Drew, you don't know their situation, and a kid enjoying trap shooting is better than many other kids who play games on their phone all day.
@@austinbeachy3873 I’m not dogging the kid for shooting trap, in fact I think it’s great. And I used to shoot trap in high school myself. I’m just saying he’s got the wrong tool for the job, and is unnecessarily dealing with recoil he shouldn’t have to be. He could be having even more fun and probably better scores with a gun better suited for trap/ clays use than one of these 555’s. If you had read past my first sentence in my first comment you’d understand that.
But if you wish, keep up with your “shove off” attitude and keep learning the hard way rather than listening to people who have been around the block and can impart some knowledge from their experience.
Thanks guys love your content. Wish you guys did deer hunting!
Those are fightin words... 😂. All I do is deer hunt in the fall, well at least as much as I can.🙂 Aaron
@@gouldshooting But y'all should film it.
also ammo is just a big a diffrence in diffrent shotguns as chokes for sure. try it
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Can you swap out the internal chokes on a beretta 686e for external chokes? Thanks
Recently inherited my first shotgun from my uncle, this was extremely helpful, thank you! Question. How does Buckshot differ from something like what you shot in this video in terms of spread. With fewer and larger projectiles, I would think it tends to have less of a spread?
Spread pattern wound be roughly the same, although buckshot has larger pellets but much fewer of them. Buckshot would be used for hunting game like whitetail deer, etc.
I'd love to see this done with steel shot
Does the Carlson;s Extended improved Modified Choke really Help for Distance Shooting Clay Targets in my Winchester SX4 versus using the Factory Modified Choke? Nobody can give me a straight answer??
i just got a GFORCE GF12GA it came with a mod choke what other chokes should get .and good video
how are you enjoying your GF12 after two years? Has it been finicky with lower velocity shells?
Cheers
Gotta run those Patternmaster chokes! Great chokes that shorten your shot string that really help when hunting flying game. Plus they have awesome customer service to boot.
I have many different chokes including Carlson’s, Briley, Patternmaster, and a few others along with all the factory chokes my guns came with and I always turn back to Patternmaster tubes for hunting.
Check out this great video regarding choke tubes:
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The microseconds involved in you "shot string" don't mean anything. It's the width if your shot cloud that matters.
I ordered myself a carlsons full choke for my mossberg 500,,,, my factory accu choke “full” was stuck big time, so i decided it was coming out no matter what, i had to use a bolt extractor to get it out and it was so tight all the way out,, Im pretty sure the choke tube expanded cause the other factory chokes go in nice and perfect except for the “full” i had it on for 3 years without ever taking it off.. ive used steel BB, 1s, 2,….
Has that ever happened to anyone else????
I had a full in my Belgium A5 an was shooting #4 lead shot squirrel hunting an didn't realize that it blew a chunk out of my choke where the threads start almost couldn't get it out
I just keep a full and modified in my 525..seems to work just fine in competition
"keep" yet you use 2 different chokes...
Im looking at getting an extended choke for my new SX4 12 gauge mainly for Grouse hunting. I usually drive my side by side on old logging roads where alot of the time they are 20-40 yards away. Other times they are 2 yards away lol Which choke would you recommend for all purpose grouse hunting in those conditions? Judging by your video, the full patterns well for close quarter headshots. Thanks!
I’d recommend going with IC, it works well on shots within the distances you described. Aaron
@@gouldshooting Thank you Aaron!
patternmaster upland amazing with steel sixes
Lot of good info but what if your deer hunting with slugs what would you recommend for that?
I would start with Cylinder shoot a group then IC, and maybe a Mod. See which one works best. It’s not recommended to shoot full chokes with slugs. Aaron
I just bought the Carlson blackcloud chokes for my new stoger. My question is will it with a .695 restriction preform the same as the same as the sporting clay choke with the same restriction or no?
I don’t know the exact answer to that. If you intend to shoot the same loads it will probably be similar but because different loads have different wads, etc, the only way to know is test it out. Aaron
no two chokes will give the same results, you could try 2 different .700 restriction chokes and get different results.
I would never use anything for waterfowl wider than a modified. If I could just have one choke it's either a light full or an improved mod.
I just bought a winchester SX4, you recommend buying external choke tubes or I use the ones that are already included
You certainly can use the chokes provided with your gun. Extended chokes tend to pattern better and are easier to change. Put that with more options of different constrictions and you have more options for shooting. Aaron
It's my guess that extended chokes have a bit more of gradual taper to final diameter than the flush chokes. Is that correct?
Go put the ones you have on paper with the ammo you shoot. Chances are they’ll work just fine. I myself prefer Patternmaster chokes when it comes to my hunting and Briley or Carlson’s extended chokes when it comes to target shooting. You’ll usually see more consistent evenly spread patterns with extended tubes.
I have a browning maxus which is very similar to an SX4 and love the Patternmaster code black duck choke for pretty much all my shotgun hunting, besides turkey.
@@chevyon37s Got an SXP defense, with field barrel. As cost isn't a big sticking point, I'd prefer something that does make a difference instead of make me feel good.
Good video as usual. What would you estimate the AVERAGE distance a clay is shot at when shooting 16 yd trap? Thanks.
It's hard to find choke tubes when you don't know what you need. This helps greatly, thank you. I have a Maverick 88 with one choke tube (no idea what it is though) are these choke tubes usable in a maverick?
Yes, I believe so. Go to choketube.com and find your gun and the chokes they make for it. A quick search and I found the Maverick 88. Aaron
Go to Patternmaster ‘s website and they have a choke tube Cross over list. very extensive in the models they cover, likely your gun has the same choke tube threads as a big name gun manufacture.
My go to choke is skeet I shoot that for everything
You patterned mine for me because I shoot a sx4
no 2 shotguns shoot the same, even when using the exact ammo or choke
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What do you use for d o v e s using steel number six
Mod
I just need to know which choke I can shoot a lead slug out of?....I'm guessing only full cylinder, but idk...And if I have a cylinder on, can I still shoot clay target ammo?
cylinder or improved cylinder would more than likely give the best accuracy. i have shot slugs through turkey chokes and they were still accurate lol.... not recommended though.
Finally someone simplified the s***
I recently purchased the winchester SX4 in 12 gauge. When I bought the Carlsons Cremator choke tubes that say "fits most Winchester shotguns" and it doesn't fit. I also purchased the White wing dove choke and it doesn't fit. Can anyone let me know what I am doing wrong? Do I need to be buying A browning choke?
Carlsons should be able to help you. The SX4 requires threading for the Browning Invector plus style of choke. Aaron
Very helpful - would have loved to see - no choke - but never understood.
Stew no choke is essentially cylinder but without potentially damaging your guns choke threads. Aaron
A gun threaded for choke tubes must have one installed to shoot. Otherwise you risk big time damage to the barrel. Not so much on modern shotguns, but often the barrel metal is very thin around the choke tube areas. So that’s too thin to remain true without a choke installed, could bulge the barrel, split the end open like a trumpet, or just damage the threads for the choke and fill them with plastic from wads.
Folks REMEMBER to grease the threads of your choke , use a quality grease that will Not Dry out ...
Otherwise you may get a stuck tube which of course will cost you Money ..
Check yours today, if you can remove it , lubricate it and re install.
FYI.
Show me what 's the cilinderwhitch one
WOULD THE ONLY WAY TO BE ABLE TO SHOOT BUCKSHOT SAFLEY WITH A FULL CHOKE IS IF YOUR USING LEAD? ID ASSUME IF YOU TRY CHOKE STEEL BUCKSHOT ON FULL CHOKE YOU COULD DAMAGE YOUR GUN?
there is no steel buckshot lol, lead only.
Next video maje comparaison on barrel length. Sorri for my english😊
What about a 12 gauge slug ? Can i use a full choke tube or no choke tube at all?
Most manufacturers do not recommend using no choke as damage to the threading could occur. It’s also not recommended to shoot slugs through full chokes because of the small diameter of the choke. Try C, IC, or possibly a M. See which one shoots best. My first shotgun was a BPS and it shot slugs best with an IC. Aaron
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I've shot many slugs through an older single-shot which was "F" from factory. As it didn't damage the barrel, it's not a good idea. It's my guess that the soft lead slugs were swagging down slightly while passing through that "F" constriction. I'm not as dumb as I used to be. hahaha! And it's a good thing I didn't try some big ol' Brenekke hard-cast slugs.
What’s the price on a set of five
Can I shoot a target load out of a turkey choke? Or will it damage the choke?
Target loads are fine. You get into trouble with hard shot like steel or slugs if you over constrict them. Aaron
@@gouldshooting awesome okay! Thank you Aaron! Love y’all’s content !!! You all have inspired me to go out and try some trick shots and just shoot clays in general!
Great video Aaron, you guys always deliver and your vids are so informative. I got to say though coming from the UK.......BB's.....really? They're those 6 mm plastic balls fired through a toy gun. Pellets all day long. Any way mate, keep 'em coming.
ATB from the UK.
BB guns here in the US shoot steel balls, so referring to the shot as BB’s is not inaccurate.
I've been shooting trap and birds for too long to not pattern. You need need need to know your pattern and your hold if you're gonna hits targets or kill birds
That’s right Cody. Congratulations your in the top 10%! Aaron
Can use full choke for slugs?
No, you want to open up to M or IC maybe even C for slugs depending on your gun. Aaron
@@gouldshooting I have sx4
Okay that helps a lot thanks 😊
Since a slug is a single projectile, and the principles of a choke tube don’t apply you’ll want to use the most open choke you have.
There's a reason defensive barrels (16 to 18") are cylinder-bore with no taper.
SLUGS?
I think 10% is high. I don't know anyone that patterns their shotgun.
LOL, I’d agree. Although I know a lot of turkey hunters pattern as well as waterfowlers. At least the guys I hunt with do.
He looks and Sounds like Ken Block the car guy
This video discusses chokes and patterning correctly. What it didn't do (thank goodness) is try to say that the "holes" in the pattern would be misses. It is the shot cloud (3 dimensions) that allows an improved cylinder to break every clay shot at with the proper lead at 40 yards. If the shot all came out and arrived at the point of impacting the clay at the exact instant (impossible, but what a two dimensional "pattern" shows), you'd rarely break even a single clay at 40 yards.
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My ex was heavily into chokes. She always told me: "Choke me, daddy." Why did she call me daddy, I'll never know.
Lmao
so im curious if i want to shoot double ot buck or i want to shoot slugs should i use a full choke or no choke so i dont screw up my barrel im not trying to sound stupid but i am curious. email me bmtorfi@gmail.com
Never shoot without a choke. But running the most “open” choke like cylinder or improved cylinder that most shotguns come with is best for slugs and buck shot. But with the buckshot you could put in a tighter choke if you wish. Get out and pattern it and see what it does with a given choke constriction.
Everyone just really likes to shoot. Lol like me. Wth
Wtf will no one explain if u only have notches, which is mod. Full etc. 1 notch shoots how? 5 how