It did come with a choke, and the whole point of the choke was to stop the spin imparted by the rifling. It was helpful, but realistically not very helpful.
I've actually had a less than satisfactory experience with them, that I will be addressing in a later post because it's quite a bit a text and I don't want to hijack my thread. But I do love the concept of being able to customize your own guns to your fitting!
Yeah from what I've heard most of the people's experience with the 45 410 combos I've been with guns like the judge or the governor, and both those have the rifling that really screws with the pellets coming out, I've heard that the screw-in choke with the straight rifling really helps if not eliminates all that donut pattern that people usually get.
Do you know if the Contender came with a choke or not, I can't seem to remember off the top of my head
Haha, I have a lot of intentions for the gun, I was just wondering what people all thought of it first. I'm going to have another post, and I'm going to go through a long list of what I plan to do with it!
Did it seem the stop the rifling pattern or did it still do the donut shape?
I actually haven't gotten around to ordering it yet, the custom shop and I got into a disagreement
Yes it did come with a choke, yes it helped but in terms of feet of range. The biggest problem is a relatively small shot charge combined with low velocity and even with the choke the pattern opens pretty fast. The conundrum is the low velocity makes small pellets run out of energy for adequate penetration, but larger pellets leaves big holes in the pattern. Also not sure about BFR's but you couldn't shoot 45 Colt thru the Contender's choke so when traipsing in the woods I usually didn't have the choke installed. I can only see this problem being worse with a revolver where I'd want a couple shotshell followed by 45 Colts.
I don’t have any experience with the BFR, but I do have a 16” .45/.410 Contender barrel. And I would agree with the above assessment. I have a cheap Brazilian single-shot .410 that shoots shot so much better.
No direct experience with either. That said, I have crazy friends who like holy crapola guns. One had a 45-70 government Contender. He'd have loved the one a friend just coincidentally emailed me about, the BRF (and we call can figure out what those letters mean, like Ruger's Little Cute Revolver) in this picture:
Hello,
Nice!
Also going a little bit more off topic haha, I've always wondered why a lot of the 44 label bullets are actually .429 in diameter? Side note apparently you can fire 44 Magnum in a 444 Marlin. However there's a chance of a case bulge because the 444 Marlin is a taper case and is wider at the bottom, but I think the rims are the same. I just love rimmed cartridges in general and the ability to fire multiple things out of the same gun.
