Chuck, respectfully I think that giving us your skeet scores as an argument for a specific choke combination only tells us about your shooting ability. And also, when you shoot three rounds in 73, there is no possibility of comparison, it does not get a lot better if you use skeet chokes.

I remember you telling us of pheasants you shot out at 30 yards (or was it 40) with a .410, so you are clearly a lot better than average shot, to say the least, :-) Any choke combination you use won't make a difference, but to the average Joe I tend to agree completely with Smallbore. Gough Thomas (G.T. Garwood) addresses the choke issue very well in his books with lots of facts and examples and he favors open chokes also.JMTC.

JC

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