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Article: Spread out: make tight patterns open up without changing out your choke tubes.(Shotgunning)
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- Petersen's Hunting
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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A COUPLE OF years ago I enjoyed an entire week of pheasant hunting in Nebraska. Since 1 would be hunting late in the season, when the birds were likely to flush wild, I took my 1920s-vintage Fox Sterlingworth, choked Modified and Extra-Full. While it is my favorite long-range upland gun, its fixed chokes are much too tight for birds that get up only a few yards away from its thirty-inch barrels.
As they're supposed to do late in the season, most of the ringnecks flushed long, but a few had not read the rulebook and waited until I was quite close before exploding into the air. On most of the close-flushers, I simply held my fire until the birds were out far enough ...
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