Who's going to the range this weekend?

[Bongo Lewi]

Cylinder choke. Flitecontrol is designed for police and defensive shotguns that have no capability to accept chokes. I have heard but not tested for myself that using chokes can actually cause the pattern to get wider, not smaller with that particular wad design. Might be something else to geek out on my next trip to the range with the Beretta.

Cylinder or IC is probably the best choice. The problem with finding any helpful info is most of the content out there re: chokes is about clays, waterfowl or deer hunting. All of the targets are 40+ yards away. Buck performs pretty much the same way as shot thru a choke. Flightcontrol, being designed strictly for tactical applications... as it is said your mileage may vary.

A lot of people choose Carlsons buck choke. Others are just as good. Kicks, some others. They reportedly handle 00 and 000 equally well. I confess to just using the cylinder or IC that usually comes with the gun and forget about it. You may have better luck with non-flightcontrol shells. you can more or less pick the pattern you seek by switching the chokes.

For sporting clays, I shoot an O/U. Sometimes 12 ga. others 20. I put IC and LM chokes on the gun. LM for the second shot.

 

[Bongo Lewi]

I cut open some Federal 12 ga shells, here's what I found.

Left to right, Truball LEB127DPRS deep penetrator slug; Power-Shok 000 8 pellet buck F127 000; Law Enforcement Tactical 8 pellet Flitecontrol 00 buck LE13300.

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It is interesting that the Flitecontrol wad is taller than the stack of pellets and that it is a one piece design, vs the short, overflowing, 2 piece wad of the Power-Shok loading.

Imagine getting hit by that slug. That's gonna leave a mark.