Snake oil

 

Given that there is a finite number of shot in a shell, any choke that steals pellets away from the target breaking core will result in more lost targets. Spreading out the pellets toward the perimeter and believing the core is remaining viable is fantasy. Of course, some shooters will believe otherwise and buy it anyway.

 

Save your money on the Helix chokes!!! Just buy another Briley choke instead. I like the Spectrum Black Oxide Chokes. Briley will install any color band on the end of this choke you like. Briley installed the Gold Bands on all the chokes I bought for my Beretta 391. So now all my chokes match, the gold lettering on my receiver!!! Add whatever, Bling you like to the end of your barrels. break em all jeff

 

I just recently bought 2 Briley helix skeet choke tubes for my browning 725. I haven’t had a chance to pattern them yet!! I will keep you posted once I do.
From a cosmetic point of view they are really long and appears to look a little funny on the gun.

 

Those chokes are so good I shot a round with them in my gun without ammo. Still broke 25.


Or, you know, maybe it’s just another attempt to separate people from money by promising the world. A bit like assuring a 50 handicap golfer that the latest carbonium newstuffius shafted driver will increase his drive by 30 yards, when in reality a dozen lessons would benefit him a great deal more.

 

In talking to a good friend ( 5 time state SC champ ) who has tested them, he likes them when using European shells where the wads are slightly connected with a slim piece of plastic. The Helix choke strips them and makes sure the wads open up. Also, his experience over years is "less smoked" targets as the core is not as dense.

 

I have a strong dislike of all ported type chokes when used in a O/U. They are a mess to clean and offer no discernable benefit.

 

Neil Winston tested these chokes a few years back, in 2016. They were neither better, nor worse, than the similarly dimensioned choke tubes he compared them against.

Here is the summary of his test:

Review and Summary

Using an article by Nick Sisley as a model, I tested two Briley Helix choke tubes, Modified and Extra Full, against two other extended chokes of the same constriction but conventional design. I shot 40 patterns and analyzed them with the program Shotgun-Insight, which is an absolutely necessary tool for this sort of task.

• Using “central thickening,” an objective numerical alternative to visual estimation of pattern “hotness,” I did not confirm Mr. Sisley’s assessment that Briley “appears to have something there.” Evaluating two tests together, I did not find any reliable difference.

• Using “75% shot diameter,” an objective numerical alternative to visual estimation of pattern width, I did not confirm Mr. Sisley’s impression that the Helix chokes produced “slightly wider” patterns. In neither of two comparisons was there any difference at all in pattern width.

CONCLUSION:
The tested Briley Helix® chokes performed well, but just the same as equally-constricted conventional choke tubes. The Helix feature had no effect at all on the patterns.

 

I have several. They are no better than my other Briley chokes. They are dirty for sure. I use them to add a couple of inches of barrel length. I break open my gun and rest it on a leather pad. That extra length makes it more comfortable to hang onto. Sounds silly but I like a certain height to my gun to lean on.

 

If the gun don’t point where you’re looking, you won’t hit anything.
That being said. Chokes breed confidence, and can make you look cool. So that’s a plus.

 

My son uses them for high school trap, really likes them, can’t say that they pattern any better then the rest but you can’t miss which gun to grab

 

At a recent shoot a neighboring shooter was using them, and I got pelted in the side of my head with a big enough chunk of wad to sting. Another reason to wear glasses with some side protection.

Larry

 

Just a fancy looking choke that shoots nor patterns any better than any other. I patterned them side by side, same gun, same shells. Shot 5 with Helix IM, then 5 with ported IM, both Briley. No significant difference. Then the Full, then the XF. Not enough to warrant leaving them in. Sold them for 95% of what l paid.
Will stick with my extended Brileys.

 

There was a guy who did some slow motion video of a bunch of chokes for his waterfowl gun. He was not using target loads. Here is the video. Briley Helix was at 12:29 timestamp.

 

Shows pretty conclusively, what I already thought. Helix or any " spiral ported tube" does not spin a charge of pellets or the wad. Also, the testing showed that smooth chokes are better than ported and that Muller are better than anything tested....100% of the time.

 

Maybe the best gimmick ever. That's something anyway, innit?

BTW I can't speak for others but the factory Perazzi and Beretta tubes are the best ever. I know that cos they came with the guns. TabA/SlotB

 

There was some conversation on this particular choke maybe a year or 2 ago and there were complaints from shooters stating that on the trap line there was a unusual amount of debris/emissions out the side of the helix chokes. I will see if I can dig up the thread.

 

Anyone who ever finds the magic choke tube please let us know!!

 

Here is a posting by a member more than awhile back on the helix chokes. https://www.trapshooters.com/posts/1951136/

 

I'm just going to run a turkey choke on a fully rifled slug barrel and call it good. Now, where did I put that 870?

 

I bought a set and put on paper at 13 yard's did not pattern as good as my browning factory chokes. very disappointed in chokes for what they cost, would not recommend buying i am selling soon.

 

I got one. It sucks, gets really dirty and sometimes a piece of wad gets stuck in it

 

Anyone actual test these chokes on pattern board?

 

Read post #9 above. Neil Winston evaluated them and found no difference from “regular” chokes. End of story.

 

And regardless of the pattern spraying your neighbor basically rules it out

 

I bought a set and put on paper at 13 yard's did not pattern as good as my browning factory chokes. very disappointed in chokes for what they cost, would not recommend buying i am selling soon.

Anyone actual test these chokes on pattern board?

If you were not in the middle of putting up 50 garbage postings in one hour you would have read the post by brakeman.

 

Good call. Odd behaviour by someone who's been a member for 11 years. Something to buy or sell, one assumes.

 

I purchased 3 Helix chokes on a promo deal and I hate them. I shot a few flats of shells and consistently noticed not breaking targets nearly as well. Went back to my Pure Gold or factory and was balling them up. They’re as good as a fence post in my book.