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Ivector+ card shooter choke?

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#1 ·
I have been to only 1 turkey shoot in my life. I got my butt handed to me! I was shooting a gun set up for turkey hunting with 2 oz. loads. If a turkey load shoots good out of a .670 in a browning gold then would a trap load shoot good and tight out of a .640 or .643? I have a .643 strut stopper extream tru glo choke and a .655 hastings for the invector + system.
 
#2 ·
Seven months and no replys? This is one dead a$$ forum.
 
#3 ·
Not really, it's the thread, subject and content.

First, card shooting is not real popular, mostly just small local pockets of interest.

Then there is the problem that every gun, every load and every screw in choke preforms differently. You have to test it for yourself, with your gun, your load and your choke. (Then, lots of these games make the competitors use ammo supplied at the spot, just to make things more even).

Next, I would bet that most of the guys doing especially well in this endeavor, are using custom barrels, cut and choked especially just for that game.

And if one wanted to use screw in chokes there are likely two ways to get there.

1) Try them all.

2) Custom made.
 
#6 ·
I used to do lots of this and tried it all, the most important thing I found was point of actual impact and knowing this for the yardage you shoot, the best I had was my grand fathers M12 with .044 choke, I shot my ammo with 1-1/2 oz #9 loaded to 1075 fps on a cronograph, it shot like a rifle, I tried 3" in my 1100 with 2oz of 9's but it did not shoot like the M12..
 
#7 ·
I know this is an old post but I'd like to give others that read it some advice on card shooting matches and screw in chokes at card shoots. You can over choke your shotgun by using too tight of a choke tube in a shotgun to where it deforms the lead shot pellets and those pellets become flyer's, which ruin the tight pattern you want. I shoot card shoot matches all fall & winter and have shot them for many years. The only problem I have with screw in chokes in my experiences is they fade away (pattern opens up) after they begin to heat up. Factory fixed chokes will also do this but not nearly as bad or fast. Of coarse the fixed choke barrel has more metal to it than a choke tube does and the choke tubes heat up faster than the fixed choke barrels. The best thing to do to prepare for a card shoot is to pattern your shotgun with the same ammo, and at the same distance you will be shooting at the card shoot match. Once you have a shotgun with a fixed choke or a choke tube that holds a tight pattern, find out where the P.O.I. is for your best pattern compared to your P.O.A. Adjust your P.O.A. to put your best pattern P.O.I. on the target. Learn and remember your shotgun's best P.O.I. pattern with practice shooting. The more pellets you have near or on the X on the target card, the better chance you have of winning the shoot. Watch for factory looking "modified" worked shotguns. If just a simple fact that if there are regular card matches, there will be at least one factory looking "modified" worked shotgun brought to it by someone trying to cheat. Most factory shotguns will not shoot as tight of a pattern as a "modified" worked shotgun will. The factory shotgun was built to hunt with and card shooting matches were never thought of to be built into their design, the factory looking "modified" shotgun was built just for card shooting matches.
 
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