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Ok, but that Gracoil is going to ruin your balance with the added weight at the butt, and there's no practical way to add weight in front to counter, not to mention it looks like a bull's ass sewed up with grapevine, as well as being $500+. Surely you can get by with the adj. comb and a thicker pad. Just saying...
JR

The Briley spectrums looks pretty cool so far!

You�re on the verge of banishment.

In "the eye of the beholder" comes to mind. Certainly better suited for an O/U target gun, adjustable comb and all.
Karl

Well, I can't read the choke designation on my screw-ins and I can't remember the notch code, so it may be I'm at the color code stage of life...Geo

I like seeing the colors and big "IC" and "M" to know which choke I'm using. I have to often change between shooting IC/M on 16-30 yard stations and using M/IM on 25-45 yard stations. Sometimes I even run a weird SK/M on stations that throw targets in front of your face, then a bunker trap on report. I don't have time to look at notch codes that don't even protrude from the barrel.

Some eventually go the anti-intuitive route, that I did with sporting clays, and forget about choke all together. I use two fixed MOD chokes and just shoot them on everything, near and far. Been doing that for nearly ten years now, and am shooting the best of my life (at age 66). On close "rabbits" I'll drop in a Fiocchi Interceptor spreader load, only because "rabbits" are so unpredictable. Other than that ...............just smoke 'em.

When we shoot a station that has relatively close birds I sometimes quip "Reckon I've got enough choke for those?", in a joking way. When no chips hit the ground you know two things........ you had enough choke, and you had 'im in the center of your pattern. Both great confidence builders.

SRH

Sounds good, Stan. I've been shooting with my fixed M/IM chokes on my Krieghoff for a long time. I forced myself to shoot with the tight chokes and they force you to be on target. I just sent my barrels off to Briley today and am going to get a set of thin-walled chokes installs. I plan to use M/IM about 70% of the time and work back down to IC/M for the other stations. I want that extra 1-2 birds on my scorecard that I know I'm dropping. Sometimes I struggle with 20 yard crossers that I've never seen before. Takes me about 4 tries to dial it in shooting M. I know if I opened it up a bit, I would have an extra 15" to play with and might get a chip and extra bird on my scorecard.

You are exactly right about picking up an extra bird or two. You will see, on the scoreboard, that more often than not one bird separates HOA, or high in class, from first place loser. I'm a firm believer in working to get every bird you can.

The Interceptors work very well for me, for that. I'm not saying they are better than changing chokes, but just easier for me, and less thinking involved. In my gun they open the pattern just as much as the homemade spreaders I have loaded, but still give me a nice pattern without a lot of patchiness and holes. I'd say they open it from a MOD pattern to a light IC. That's a pretty nice increase in size.

One of my shooting buddies, and toughest competitor on an everyday basis, shoots -.005" spreader tubes at almost everything, unless it is a very long bird. He seldom gets hard breaks unless the target is very close, but I can't argue with the results. It's just not my "cup of tea". He breaks targets on edge with those "negatives" so far that I sometimes can't believe what I'm seeing.

Best to ya'. SRH

You two are making a pretty good case for the good ol' boring IC/Mod.