Spreaders are OK, but you either have to buy them or reload them--which is either more expensive or more trouble than just shooting regular factory loads, or regular reloads. If the purpose of a gun is for birds like grouse, woodcock, and bobwhites, and you also want to use it for close range targets (like skeet, and like a lot of the setups for sxs shoots), then it makes more sense to just go ahead and open the choke(s). Exception: high end guns with which you don't want to tinker. I have one of those. The rest, I'd have no problem altering chokes to fit the purpose for which I intend to use the gun in question, the majority of the time.
I'll quickly add that for the one gun on which I won't alter chokes, I just bought half a flat of spreaders.
Last edited by L. Brown; 01/14/10 06:51 PM.
