Over / Under Shot Guns - school me on proper choke set-up

[Ben Lamb]

Nice try Smokey, but you aren’t going to find many hunting guns choked full/full..

Classic German guns can often times be found in full/extra full or full/full.

 

[homestead]

I've got an older field model Citori with fixed chokes, bottom-modified/top-full. Shoot bottom barrel first, though I can select to shoot top first. But the selector can be finnicky and slide to the middle where it gets stuck and prevents the safety from sliding forward. It's a problem I'd like to remedy this spring.

 

[shrapnel]

Classic German guns can often times be found in full/extra full or full/full

I missed the part about Germany and North Dakota standards…

 

[Mica Man]

Lot's of good advice already given with chokes so I'll add nothing more to the conversation other than great choice in dog breed.

 

[406dn]

Is that a North Dakota joke?

I shot Registered Skeet for about 10 years, and other that an occasional bird hunter that only came out to the practice range to shoot a round just before bird season opened, I never saw a serious Skeet shooter shooting a full choked gun.

Curious, you say that. There was hardly anything other than trap around Fargo, back in the day. The two years I shot in a league, most every one was shooting a gun pretty heavily choked.

 

[crock239]

@Bugle 'Em In I think everyone drove right past the obvious...that's a damn nice mixed bag o' birds you got there, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

 

[Jnasa]

It depends how far your average shot is. I hunt with a semi auto and pump so I run and IC or Mod depending what I expect. If I had a O/U I would probably run IC then Mod. If hunting grouse I’d do skeet/IC. Late season pheasants maybe mid/full.