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bnsafe

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well, they ended up buying him a 410 yesterday, red dot, and 2 boxes of tss so he should be good to go, now just the wait for turkey season.
 

RAG

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Hmmm. No one and only right answer her. Depends on the young shooters ability, but I very may well think about Improved Cylinder with TSS if it were my kid. Improved Cyl is pretty darn tight with TSS, and it'll still reach to 50 yards, with a little more forgiving pattern. You could go to Modified if the youngster has a steady hand. I pattern tested around 100 loads/choke TSS combos, but most of my testing was with larger size shot for ducks/geese/pheasant. That said, my patterns didn't get any tighter when I exceeded full choke. Attached are a couple patterns I shot with 1oz #9s, Modified choke constriction...at 40 yards and 50 yards. Note: another gun of mine required Improved Modified choke to equal this pattern density.
 

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N2TRKYS

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I have shot a pile of pattern checks with several different shotguns and none of them have shot worth a crap with a more open choke. Folks always say to try your factory full or modified choke first, but I have found that to be a waste of components.

I get the best patterns(tightest patterns) from the tighter chokes.
 

RAG

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I have shot a pile of pattern checks with several different shotguns and none of them have shot worth a crap with a more open choke. Folks always say to try your factory full or modified choke first, but I have found that to be a waste of components.

I get the best patterns(tightest patterns) from the tighter chokes.
In my particular case, I wasn't looking for the absolute tightest possible pattern, as I was looking for long range duck, goose and pheasant loads. But out of this particular gun/barrel, I did in fact try improved modified and then full chokes, but the patterns didn't get any tighter than this (96% density at 40 yards). But everybody's mileage will vary on this I'm sure!
 
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