sub-gauge Tula chokes.

Just a point of interest. I understand the Tula choke design and I shoot a few guns with Cutts Compensators and they break a nice skeet target. Why do we not see subgauge Tula choked barrels? The are Cutts in all gauges but not Tula? If the Russian team only shot 12G I could see no Russian guns but Krieghoff/ Perazzi etc. produced guns for all gauges. Any explanation? Thanks tmc

 

ive never seen tulas in sub gauge bbls before.
and, ive never seen sub gauge events in the olympics either.
seems k and p guns made the 4 gauge guns for american skeet market.

 

About the time the Tula choke came around, four barrel sets were already starting to fall out of favor (bring replaced by Purbaugh subgauge tubes), and Perazzis and Krieghoff were not nearly as prevalent as they are today. You would have seen a lot of Brownings (Citori & Superposed), 3200s, 101s, and a few Rottweils. Hell, you were just coming off the time when some people still ran four 1100s.

Everything I've always read about them is you pretty much needed 1 1/8oz for them to work the best, and they also worked best with fiber wads, something that was phased out domestically in the 60s, but held on longer in Europe.

The market for them simply never existed.

 

Thanks, your replies make sense and will scratch that itch so to speak. You find a lot of odd stuff in the gun world and I wondered about the chokes. tmc