'Most', or 'Average' hunters take quite a beating on threads concerning choke selection and usage thereof.

I don't hunt that much. When I do, I do OK.

All the target shooting on an annual basis doesn't hurt, but I don't set the world afire in the field. I'm at least in the 'competent' category, but I do my share of missing.

The folks I hunt with do OK too. They don't practice near as much as I do, but I don't see gross incompetence or the inability to use a full choke when conditions require.

What are your observations?

Do 'average' hunters suck as badly as some people seem to indicate?

"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble