Beretta A310 Improved Cylinder Do I Need A Improved Cylinder Choke Help Please

[brucemyster 75]

 

is it because I'm using a more open choke or because I have more confidence with that particular gun?

 

Could be either!

 

Confidence is a great aim booster.

 

Having a skeet choked gun will give a wider spread and so will result in you hitting targets that you'd miss through poor aim with a tigher choke. The flip side of the debate, is too wide a pattern, as you may well be getting if shooting skeet at sporting ranges means some prey will be lost through holes in the pattern. As Charlie said, using a heavier cartridge and thus putting more shot into the string will help aleviate this, but it won't eliminate it and the best way to shoot is always with the optimum load / choke combo. That said in the field, you can't always have the optimum so have to go for the typical. Also theres a lot to be said for confidence even in the wrong selection because as Sporting says, whatever the choke, the gun has to be pointing in the right direction!

 

My sporting range is at max 40 yards with confidence and to be honest having watched a seasons worth of driven shooting day in and day out I'd say this is the range that the majority of the birds are taken at (plenty have a go at the longer distances but not many succeed) my experience doesn't run to the distances wildfowlers shoot at although I believe their shooting at longer ranges. I use a 32g cartridge in my gun so I presume this fills in the gaps in the pattern of which you speak, having had the privilege to trying a fair few guns I think that the Remington fits me better, comes up sweeter and therefore is improving my shooting, if I ever manage to get a choked barrel I shall put this theory to the test, you could however be right and I'm just a sh*t shot and the wider pattern is my saviour