First, cylinder is not choke. It is the absence of it.
Second, Anybody who champions cylinder for all wingshooting should join me on a late season dove field. They will be quickly embarrassed, and/or go home empty handed.
Third, McIntosh loved to stir the pot. Not for one second do I believe he really thought that. I challenged his statement on this very board, where he used to post occasionally, right after he wrote that, and he vanished. He never came back and posted again. I didn't want that at all, I wanted him to discuss it and provide evidence for his postulation. I guess he knew he couldn't.
Lastly, the ONLY place a cylinder is appropriate for me is shooting woodies in a tight little beaver pond at first light with steel shot. Any shot there over 25 yards is through the trees and can't be taken anyway, and steel will pattern much tighter than lead out of a cylinder barrel.
It was, and is, an obscenely irrational statement, IMO. I lost a lot of respect for him as a writer when he "said" that.
SRH
