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.410 Skeet

X-Mas wish list included an innexpensive .410 double for casual Skeet at my club.
Took a couple of weeks but one surfaced and ik snagged it.
CZ Ringneck, 2005, First year I believe.





Field used but still in admirable condition.
5+ and 6+ trigger pulls, not horrible.
Factory choked ooo left and ooo right, Mod and Mod.



Yet another gun that "fits me perfectly".
Exhibition Wood

C'mon...for a Ringneck ?



Constriction .029 in the left and .026 in the right.





A Skeet Guy would say pretty damn tight for 22 yard targets..
As a .410 guy I’m not sure what to say.

What’s the conventional wisdom on Skeet Chokes for a .410?

Sorry I can’t see your pictures (I take it that you are using Imgur - blocked this side of the pond ) but it sounds like a nice acquisition.

If you only want to use it for Skeet you could open up the chokes, and accept loss of range on game.

My Rottweil has 1/4 and 1/2 chokes so I try to use 8 or 9 shot to fill in pattern density.

High 1 is the most difficult target
The statistics show it requires the most choke for the highest likelihood of success, accounting for the average aiming error, and the average distance from center stake where it’s broken.

3,4,and 5, are the easiest.

Many skeet shooters keep the left barrel pretty tight, often times full, to make sure that they smoke number one,

And then optimize their constriction for a half ounce of 9’s at the center stake. Many times, honing the choke a couple thousands at a time And checking pattern over the center stake.

Good .410 guys are so mechanical on their shots, they’re working with the center 12 inches of their pattern. There is no reliability outside of that.

That is NSSA skeet shooting, where perfection is rewarded, and has nothing to do with the guys that stuff 3/4 of an ounce of shot into a 3 inch cartridge for sporting clays.

My NSSA season average was in the 80s, shooting a full choke Mossberg 410, unmodified. Not remotely competitive. Put shooting 20+ targets on every 410 round of skeet was very pleasing and made shooting wild game very successful. Actually too easy for jumping ducks.

claude purbaugh and dick gonser @ skeetmaster choked the 410 tubes .010.
i won numerous world titles with .010 in 410 with purbaugh tubes.

To what would you attribute your success?

For me, shooting a gazillion targets with the 410 until I knew within fractions of an inch where I was as the target reached. The standard stake was the key.

It got where if I dropped a high one or high two, I didn’t even want to finish the round. It was a waste of time to continue. My score wasn’t perfect and I had 90% confidence that I would break the rest of them without thinking.

That was kind of when I decided shooting five nights a week probably wasn’t the best use of my time.

And I wasn’t even that good.