Shot the Premier League 100 reg sporting at AGL on Saturday and what an enjoyable round it was. However thought I would give my DT10 sporter a run out as I normally shoot the trap version with fixed 5/8s chokes. I wanted to try out some Kicks smoke chokes I bought second hand recently.
It wasn’t until the next day when I cleaned the gun I realised I had put the chokes in the wrong way ie. the 15 (3/8s) in the bottom barrel and the 5 (skeet) in the top barrel. So I had been shooting the more distance stuff with skeet and the closer with 3/8s!!.
Can honestly say it didn’t make a blind bit of difference to my score, I shot an 81 and any I missed I think I would have done anyway.
Also I normally used three different shot sizes, 9’s for close stuff, 8’s for anything showing a bit of belly and 7’s for edge on targets. Ran out out 9s and 8s so shot the last stand 14, a diagonal looping dropper and a r-l below the feet, both fairly close targets with 7s and smoked all six targets.
So there we are, think sometimes we try and read too much into chokes and cartridge combinations.
It wasn’t until the next day when I cleaned the gun I realised I had put the chokes in the wrong way ie. the 15 (3/8s) in the bottom barrel and the 5 (skeet) in the top barrel. So I had been shooting the more distance stuff with skeet and the closer with 3/8s!!.
Can honestly say it didn’t make a blind bit of difference to my score, I shot an 81 and any I missed I think I would have done anyway.
Also I normally used three different shot sizes, 9’s for close stuff, 8’s for anything showing a bit of belly and 7’s for edge on targets. Ran out out 9s and 8s so shot the last stand 14, a diagonal looping dropper and a r-l below the feet, both fairly close targets with 7s and smoked all six targets.
So there we are, think sometimes we try and read too much into chokes and cartridge combinations.