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Choke in a smoothbore?
Eric Krewson:
In my 20 and before the Skychief load my whole pattern would be like the 4" of cardboard on the far left side of the picture above.
mullet:
I also tried the Skychief load in my .62 smoothbore. It greatly improved the pattern and I killed a fine Gobbler the first time out at 38 yards with #6 shot. Before the pattern was spray and pray.
Hawkdancer:
Off to the range to try the "Skychief" - when and if the wind stops blowing 20-40 mph plus, and I can get a 20 gauge ramrod made up, will likely use my .58 bench rod at first!
Hawkdancer
Gimlis Ghost:
I could be wrong but I suspect the shot column pushing into a soft and sloppy lubed wadding might tend to force the column into an elongated cone shape. Each piece of shot would be so greasy none could stick to another and the whole column would just flow down the barrel with out picking up any individual spin from the bore wall so there would be no bernouli effect to scatter the individual shot once they left the muzzle.
Eric Krewson:
I just found out that Rice Barrels will jug choke one of their fowler barrels for you when you order it. I don't know what that would add to the cost but suspect it would be very well done.
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