Re skeet chokes . . . Back in "the day", doubles made for skeet shooting were often choked "skeet out" and "skeet in". That should be equivalent, more or less I think, to WS2 for out and WS1 for in. On skeet doubles, to get maximum advantage from your gun's chokes, you want to use the tighter barrel on the first (outgoing) bird; the more open barrel on the 2nd (incoming) bird of the pair. Not hard to do with either double triggers or a single selective. Just reverse the normal firing order. But IMO, with standard skeet loads, if you're breaking your targets in the middle of the field, you don't really need any choke at all--at least not if you're shooting at least 3/4 oz shot. .410 is a different story. But to return to my point: If you own one of those Winchester 21's that's WS 1 & 2, you want to use 2 first on doubles. Also on the first bird of your pairs of singles from stations 1-3, if you're loading both barrels for singles rather than shooting WS1 at both of them. Some people may not think about that. But the gun is set up for skeet . . . if you use it correctly.
I had the chance to meet and shoot with Don once. I did enjoy giving him a bad time about the chokes on 28ga Parker Repros. If you want to talk about a gun that was well outside of Winchester specs . . . those Japanese at the Olin-Kodensha factory must have been looking at the 12ga chart when they choked the 28" barrels on 28ga Repros. M/F fit nicely within 12ga specs, but WAY too tight for 28ga specs. Don didn't like the idea of changing them. But as a grouse and woodcock hunter, I had no time for 12ga M/F specs in a 28ga gun. Matter of fact, had one set of 28ga Repro barrels opened to .005/.010. Used that gun on a preserve pheasant hunt, killed 27 roosters straight including a couple doubles. Preserve pheasants aren't particularly difficult, but I wouldn't want to put any money on myself were I to attempt to repeat it.
Last edited by L. Brown; 01/26/15 10:07 AM.
