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Button Buck
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Last Login: 5/1/2008 7:30:53 PM
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can some one please explain to me the meaning of all the different
shot gun chokes,...modified....improved modified....open....improved cylinder
i have a 410 with an improved modified choke and want to know if i can shoot
a slug through it...it holds a really tight pattern...too tight for rabbit hunting
will sawing a few inches off the barrel spread it out some.
''RUN RABBIT RUN''
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Button Buck
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Last Login: 3/30/2008 11:23:15 PM
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BunnyBuster, this is one of my favorite subjects. I love shotguns for hunting all sorts of game. Here goes:
Cylinder bore (also called Open): no constriction at all, the muzzle is the same diameter as the barrel. Widest spread of the shot pattern!
Skeet: some constriction
Improved Cylinder: a little more constriction (or choke)
Light Modified: tighter
Modified: still tighter (this falls just about in the middle of the common range of chokes)
Improved modified: tighter
Light Full: tighter
Full: pretty tight patterns now, good for longer range shots
Extra Full: really tight patterns (like for turkeys)
Super Full: tightest patterns of all the common chokes available, good for long range shots at turkeys, not much else.
For rabbit hunting you probably would be happiest with an Improved Cylinder or a Modified choke and #4 or #6 shot.
If you cut off your barrel you will remove any choke in it and you will have a cylinder bore. This would give you very wide patterns, so wide and uncontrolled that you would probably not be happy with the results. If you want to get a wider spread you could take your gun to a gunsmith and have him open the choke up some. This would be cheaper than replacing the gun or the barrel.
As for your question about slugs, you can shoot shoot any lead slug through your barrel.
Hope this helps.
P.S. what part of the country do you hunt bunnies in? I live in NE GA, near Atlanta. I just got into rabbit hunting in the last few years. I've got three beagles and a basset hound.
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Button Buck
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thanks that did help alot.i live in oklahoma.
i have been around rabbit running my whole life
but just got my own beagles about 3 years ago
myself...right now i have 2 males and just got a
female pup[7 months old].
''RUN RABBIT RUN''
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