Thread: Beginners guide to choosing shot sizes

MD covered it well but would add that as for your last queation regarding range is that from my experience lead seems to be able to retain energy a bit farther than steel. If you are shooting lead at longer distances than steel go for a tighter choke for a better pattern for game shooting.

On the subject of chokes it is quite a good idea to try clays with much tighter chokes than necessary every now and again in practice to see how your accuracy is, and improve it accordingly. On a score card a couple of pellets breaking the clay in two is recorded the same as one turned to dust. A few rounds with over tight choke will imrove your skill and once that has occured going back to a slightly more open one will see improvment in scores.

Originally Posted by Baz036

MD covered it well but would add that as for your last queation regarding range is that from my experience lead seems to be able to retain energy a bit farther than steel. If you are shooting lead at longer distances than steel go for a tighter choke for a better pattern for game shooting.

On the subject of chokes it is quite a good idea to try clays with much tighter chokes than necessary every now and again in practice to see how your accuracy is, and improve it accordingly. On a score card a couple of pellets breaking the clay in two is recorded the same as one turned to dust. A few rounds with over tight choke will imrove your skill and once that has occured going back to a slightly more open one will see improvment in scores.

Then you forget to change chokes and have a go at skeet with full/full🙂

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Then you forget to change chokes and have a go at skeet with full/full��

Yep exactly - was lucky enough to grow up on a farm that incorporated a shooting school and would often shoot skeet F&F. Really helped my accuracy and when dropped back to skeet chokes for comps my scores improved.