fixed choke skeet guns

Discussion in 'Skeeters Corner' started by bobski, Sep 18, 2021.

  1. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    anyone still shoot fixed choke guns?
     
  2. Nanuk

    Nanuk Active Member

    My favorite guns--870 matched pair (28 & 410).
    regards
    Bob
     
  3. WesleyB

    WesleyB Member Founding Member

    browning skeet
     
  4. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    citori or superposed?
     
  5. WesleyB

    WesleyB Member Founding Member

    Citori. I could never justify a Superposed.
     
  6. Michael jenis

    Michael jenis Well-Known Member

    Remington 58 , 1100s , Winchester model 50 and Remington 32’ I guess I,m old school .
     
  7. Jack Olson

    Jack Olson Mega Poster

    I still use my Remington skeet T in 12 and 20ga now and then.
     
  8. cheetah

    cheetah Well-Known Member

    Beretta 682 28”four barrel set.
     
  9. 2600jamest

    2600jamest Mega Poster

    Remington 3200 four barrel set.
     
  10. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    i looked in my cabinet and i realized that i dont own one screw in choke gun at all. unless you want to call a cutts or a m59 winchoke one!
     
  11. cheetah

    cheetah Well-Known Member

    Why is that?
    I own several of each please inform the advantage of fixed chokes.
     
  12. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    my guns are of an age of 'switch bbls' to change chokes. but...the advantage of a fixed choke is, you never leave the wrong one in only to find out 1/2 way thru a world championship where youre already down 10 birds. ;>
     
  13. cheetah

    cheetah Well-Known Member

    Sounds like a lack of preparedness for the task at hand or better known as BRAIN FART !!!!!
     
  14. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    the flaw was first realized with cutts compensators in the 40's. guys would go into the field or blinds forgetting their chokes. matter of fact, it was such a problem that polychoke challenged the market with their dial-a-duck choke and did well. cutts then came out with the adjustochoke screwed into the compensator. they got dubbed 'the pickle' for that... being it was overall as big as a deli kosher. lot of people forget the idea for choke changing was to be like a fisherman having a tackle box. you went with a variety to try based on success or failure in the blind or field.
    but it spilled over into clay sports and here we are with endless choices, experiencing the same issues our fore-fathers had. wrong choke, choke left in the truck, gambling on picking the right choke, shooting w/o a choke ruining threaded bbls, you name it. history is repeated.
    I learned it was best to just stick with a fixed choke....and still do. sometimes old is ok.
     
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  15. cheetah

    cheetah Well-Known Member

    Total lack of concentration will cause this phenomenon and is never the fault of the equipment but sounds like a great excuse for poor performance.
    I have attended many World National and US Open events along with multiple State and Regional events and haven’t experienced the issue you have described.
     
  16. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    better observation, maybe? lol.
     
  17. MDavid

    MDavid Mega Poster

    When I order subgauge tubes from Briley I specify fixed chokes. I think they pattern better.
     
  18. cheetah

    cheetah Well-Known Member

     
  19. MDavid

    MDavid Mega Poster

    Actually they are not. Same price as the choke tube version.
     
  20. cheetah

    cheetah Well-Known Member

    BUMMER !!!!!RIP OFF !!! Positively NON-REPUBLICAN !!!!!
     
  21. Steven Seigneurie

    Steven Seigneurie Mega Poster

    Ithaca/skb 20 ga skeet ....26 inch bbls ....just recreational and a killer woodcock gun over my setters
     
  22. bossbasl

    bossbasl Well-Known Member

    M-32 international skeet.
     
  23. Sgoose

    Sgoose Mega Poster Founding Member

    Have a Winchester model 12 two barrels set WS1 and WS2 choked most of the time I used the WS2.
    Sgoose
     
  24. Jack Olson

    Jack Olson Mega Poster

    If it's a skeet gun a fixed choke is all you need. Fixed are not as hard to clean as the tubes are.
     
  25. bossbasl

    bossbasl Well-Known Member

    Perazzi MX8 Tula Choke International Skeet
     
  26. Ernroe

    Ernroe Well-Known Member

    I do, a Winchester 101 20 ga choked skeet and skeet, and a std wt Rem 1100 choked skeet. I prefer fixed chokes if they match the game you are shooting.
    I'm not sure if anyone is making fixed choke barrels anymore. One caveat, you need to mic the barrel if possible.