Never used to like extended choke tubes but everyone was using them and not needing tools to change them was nice. Always used semi autos and slot ported comp-n-chokes have always worked great and patterned great for me. I recently got into sporting clays and got an over/under. Went to pattern the chokes and two brands of non-ported extended chokes pattern as expected but the bottom barrel is hitting high left when using the slot-ported comp-n-choke. Have not tried the top barrel. Wondering if the porting is causing some upward swing since the top ports on the bottom barrel are obstructed by the bottom of the upper barrel chokes? What do you guys think, is it all in my head?
Ported comp-n-choke questions
1 reading
Jogar80
1 - 19 of 19 Posts
Never used to like extended choke tubes but everyone was using them and not needing tools to change them was nice. Always used semi autos and slot ported comp-n-chokes have always worked great and patterned great for me. I recently got into sporting clays and got an over/under. Went to pattern the chokes and two brands of non-ported extended chokes pattern as expected but the bottom barrel is hitting high left when using the slot-ported comp-n-choke. Have not tried the top barrel. Wondering if the porting is causing some upward swing since the top ports on the bottom barrel are obstructed by the bottom of the upper barrel chokes? What do you guys think, is it all in my head?
Joined
·
7,122 Posts
Stop using ported chokes. A pointless gimmick encouraged by the vendors of cleaning products.
Joined
·
321 Posts
Porting won’t but a poorly made tube will
Joined
·
321 Posts
I’m sure somebody has checked on the increased noise for your buddy next to you. Probably should be banned in every duck blind. Until I see something to prove otherwise I agree with you.
I have the same chokes as I tested multiple in my A400's and the comp n choke were the best. Cleaning is a pita and I ordered their new ARC series when it came out as I was told it was the same geometry with no ports. They patterned the same.
Strongly suggest the ARC series.
I did find the newer beretta black ext factory chokes to be good also so they fixed that disaster. I would note the factory CG tubes I have are fantastic too with no need to look at anything else. Point is that it just depends--- check patterns and adjust if needed.
Strongly suggest the ARC series.
I did find the newer beretta black ext factory chokes to be good also so they fixed that disaster. I would note the factory CG tubes I have are fantastic too with no need to look at anything else. Point is that it just depends--- check patterns and adjust if needed.
Joined
·
17,216 Posts
Its not the Chokes!!!!
Its the Poor Barrel Regulation on your Beretta O/U shotgun!!!! sigh. As soon as you said, the same chokes worked just fine in my A400 "I knew what your issue was!!! I've talked about Beretta's Barrel Regulation Issues for Years!!! Sorry to have to be the one who tells you. break em all jeff
Misunderstanding. I only have A400's from Beretta. The early factory chokes were junk---tight pattern counts but irregular with clumps and holes all over the place beyond understanding in diff barrels and diff ammo. The aftermarket chokes remedied that immediately across open or tight configurations.
What I was wanting to note was that when i got my latest a400 xcel with ext blk chokes, these tubes were great in all my a400's ---just not the older tubes I had.
Joined
·
70 Posts
I use comp -n -chokes for sporting clays and they work great , but they do make the guns muzzle dirty I always have a rag handy to wipe off the muzzle before I put the gun in a case to go home .
Joined
·
2,612 Posts
Try the factory chokes or another brand. If barrel is still shooting off - it’s the barrel. If that resolves it, call Comp-n-Choke and get another tube.
Joined
·
88 Posts
I was using franchi factory chokes for about 1k shells and I patterned my reloads to that choke. The gun patterned well w the factory chokes. I was getting frustrated that I was leading well on my second clay and it would break or clip or something not spectacular but I was getting hits. One of my students was a duck hunter and mentioned that he uses a cremator choke. I went to bass pro and found me a cremator set so I bought the set and installed them. Man all day long I was dusting the heck out of every clay (you know what I mean) and I was like “uhoh at what point is this thing going to start cheesing these wads”
never happened and my results tell me that I’m doing great with this ported choke.
never happened and my results tell me that I’m doing great with this ported choke.
Joined
·
3,875 Posts
All radial porting in chokes do is make them louder to the people around them.
Anybody that passed high school physics would know this.
I was browsing Youtube the other night and ran across some guy that was amazed that Kicks full and xfull chokes tightened up the buckshot pattern on his Beretta 1301 over the factory IC choke and of course the radial porting reduced recoil. With the obvious disclaimer that he bought them with his own money so it must be true.
Anybody that passed high school physics would know this.
I was browsing Youtube the other night and ran across some guy that was amazed that Kicks full and xfull chokes tightened up the buckshot pattern on his Beretta 1301 over the factory IC choke and of course the radial porting reduced recoil. With the obvious disclaimer that he bought them with his own money so it must be true.
Joined
·
88 Posts
It seemed that way to me as well. I usually shoot modified from my 20 ga and this seems to put the pellets probably more evenly on target than the franchi choke. Speculation
Joined
·
88 Posts
I’m not sure if it reduced recoil at all but we were all wearing hearing protection so the noise level didn’t seem too much to make people off put.
I loved my compnchokes but in the O/U guns what a PITA to clean, they got dirty quickly between the barrels.
My Carlson gold are the same way, make an absolute black mess of them after a box
1 - 19 of 19 Posts
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
