Best Choke Size for Skeet

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Pattern board is only two dimensional, whereas the actual pattern is three dimensional, and the target is moving in three dimensions. Read Bob Brister. Skeet choke is used to change the pattern density for more reliable "hits" when you actually should hit the target.
The guys who routinely run off multiple 100 straights do not shoot with a 'cylinder' choke, believe me, but if there was something they could do to improve their chances by 1/2 of 1/10 of one percent, they would do it. They shoot skeet chokes for a reason.
 
Pattern board is only two dimensional, whereas the actual pattern is three dimensional, and the target is moving in three dimensions. Read Bob Brister.

I've got the book and read it many times. Brister was concerned with 3-dimensional patterns (shot strings) on long range (50 yards) flying targets (geese and ducks) using large sizes (e.g. #2 shot) of easily deformed soft lead pellets which contained only about 124 pellets in a 1 3/8 ounce load. His main conclusion from his testing was that shot stringing tended to elongate the pattern in a horizontal dimension relative to the flying bird.

Skeet shooting, OTOH, is done at distances of 21 yards or less with shells which contain 585 pellets per one ounce load. The horizontal stringing (relative to the target's flight path) is much less at 21 yards than it is at 50 yards. Any such stringing, when it occurs, would only tend to HELP the average skeet shooter by giving him more margin of error in the amount of lead (forward allowance) required to break the target.

The guys who routinely run off multiple 100 straights do not shoot with a 'cylinder' choke, believe me, but if there was something they could do to improve their chances by 1/2 of 1/10 of one percent, they would do it. They shoot skeet chokes for a reason.

As I've said in several of my previous posts on this thread, the recommendation for Cylinder chokes is not for the expert shooter who routinely runs 100 straight skeet targets most of the time. Different shooters have different needs as far as equipment is concerned. Tiger Woods is probably the best golfer in the world, but his clubs wouldn't be a wise choice for the average duffer to use to hack around the golf course. Likewise, George Digweed is probably the best overall clay target shooter in the world, but his tight (IM and Full) chokes wouldn't be well suited for the average clay shooter, much less a beginning shooter.
 
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