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LM

I made that decision for sporting years ago..020", modified. I can open it up on demand with spreaders, but it's hard to tighten one up much. After about 10 years of use, I'm satisfied it would serve me well for all hunting I do.

SRH

Youch! One choke? Isn't a big reason we all like doubles and have multiples of them is that we are not forced into that decision? LOL

I'm aiming for an assortment of guns with every possible variation of choke! Why choke variation is the perfect excuse for buying multiple versions of the exact same gun! LOL

One choke? if only one the .010 constriction.

I am a doublegun guy and expect two barrels and two chokes, if tied to only two then .005 right and .015 left, as I shoot over points 90% of the time

I believe that I could live with improved modified.
I do have a gun with both barrels choked imp mod, which when I bought it I thought would be good. That thought has since proved out.
O.M

Hummm
Only one choke, I would go with mod. But thank God, I have doubles,
Mostly I/C and Mod. It's to pounder, when I pull that second trigger, modified 9 out of 10 times gets the job done!

Yea,
Nothing like going home from a hunt with a clean left barrel!
Ksrl

If I only had one choke, life would be so diminished I certainly wouldn't bother with this website.

But the choke would be IC. 20 ga. and steel safe so I could hunt everything happily for the rest of my long life.

For most of my hunting IC would be a good compromise. I have a French gun I use for dog training and a lot of the grouse hunting here, including sharptails. It is bored light IC and Full. I get most of my birds over a spaniel using the right barrel...IC.

I would have to go IC. It can kill a bird out to some crazy distances, and with just 3/4 oz of shot. I had my eyes opened to that capability by my shooting mentor some years ago. KY John, my French guns with fixed chokes are/were indeed too tight, so I went the easy route and brought in from France a set of barrels in the white, had Kirk Merrington fit them to the gun, and PA24 black them after they had been nicely engraved. Needed open barrels for my first go at ruffs on the north shore of Superior, and that barrel set almost never leaves the gun, choked .000 and .007. I have another set in the white that I was going to have fit to the other Ideal, but it's the wrong era. Lo and behold, it is the correct era for the first Ideal that has two sets. So of course, the logical thing to do is have them made into a third set. Perhaps choked .005 and .015?