I have a Mossberg 500 in 20 gauge that uses the screw-in choke tubes.
The factory tubes are short little things, only about 2" long.
I have never patterned this gun at 40 yards, shooting at 30" circles and counting the pellets that stay in that circle, but from my experience shooting big paper and cardboard targets at 25 yards, I'd say it patterns more like a "modified" choke gun, even with the "FULL" tube in place.
I'd like to get a very tight choke tube for it, and I'm OK with one that sticks out a few inches beyond the current end of the barrel.
What can you recommend for me?
I have two purposes in mind for this choke:
1-- turkey hunting in the future. I have bagged a turkey with the factory "full" choke several years ago, but when I butchered the bird I found only a few pellet strikes, spaced inches apart. I got lucky on that hunt; next time I want to clobber the bird with at least a dozen pellets in the body if I point the gun correctly.
2-- I need to prune some limbs off a tree. The limbs are out of reach of a pole saw, and I'm not hiring a tree service or renting spiked boots and a harness to climb up there and do it myself. I have used this shotgun to blast 1" diameter limbs completely off the tree with one shot out to about 25 feet, but beyond that it takes more shots. Some of the bigger limbs (2" diameter) never fall free, but will, at most, collapse and hang straight down, still attached to the tree by the damaged section of wood.
(where I'll be using it, it's no problem to launch birdshot in the air. But I can't do it with buckshot or .22 rifles or any other real bullets).
P.S. According to various internet souces, a Mossberg 500's choke tubes are interchangble with interchanges with "Trulock’s Winchester-Browning-Moss style" Another says not just any Browning, but the Browning "Invector" series of chokes. Yet another adds "Weatherby" to the list of interchangeability options. (I'm not even sure what all this means. I've never shopped for chokes before).
The factory tubes are short little things, only about 2" long.
I have never patterned this gun at 40 yards, shooting at 30" circles and counting the pellets that stay in that circle, but from my experience shooting big paper and cardboard targets at 25 yards, I'd say it patterns more like a "modified" choke gun, even with the "FULL" tube in place.
I'd like to get a very tight choke tube for it, and I'm OK with one that sticks out a few inches beyond the current end of the barrel.
What can you recommend for me?
I have two purposes in mind for this choke:
1-- turkey hunting in the future. I have bagged a turkey with the factory "full" choke several years ago, but when I butchered the bird I found only a few pellet strikes, spaced inches apart. I got lucky on that hunt; next time I want to clobber the bird with at least a dozen pellets in the body if I point the gun correctly.
2-- I need to prune some limbs off a tree. The limbs are out of reach of a pole saw, and I'm not hiring a tree service or renting spiked boots and a harness to climb up there and do it myself. I have used this shotgun to blast 1" diameter limbs completely off the tree with one shot out to about 25 feet, but beyond that it takes more shots. Some of the bigger limbs (2" diameter) never fall free, but will, at most, collapse and hang straight down, still attached to the tree by the damaged section of wood.
(where I'll be using it, it's no problem to launch birdshot in the air. But I can't do it with buckshot or .22 rifles or any other real bullets).
P.S. According to various internet souces, a Mossberg 500's choke tubes are interchangble with interchanges with "Trulock’s Winchester-Browning-Moss style" Another says not just any Browning, but the Browning "Invector" series of chokes. Yet another adds "Weatherby" to the list of interchangeability options. (I'm not even sure what all this means. I've never shopped for chokes before).