|
|
|
|
Home New to Skeet Journals Mental Game
|
Interpreting a PatternJudging Choke PerformanceQuestion:Can I ask about how you test and judge your choke performance. Do you spend a lot of time patterning your different chokes on a board, or do you just shoot targets and get realtime feedback from them by the way they bust targets? The reason I ask is that I have been playing with some different skeet chokes latterly and the ones I seem to shoot best with aren't the best performers on paper. It's got me stumped. Ken Answer: Ken, I like to see how they pattern, the problem is understanding how to read a pattern. Another thing is where the chokes shoot, as some just shoot a more consistence POI. When I work with new chokes there are 5 things I look for. 1. How uniform the pattern is 2. How open the pattern is 3. How the POI is 4. How they break targets 5. How many targets I break with them I want the chokes to break the targets good, but not so good that I am giving up size of pattern. I want the choke to make me feel good about my shooting and give me confidence. I want my chokes to all shoot the same the same POI through all gauges. I want the chokes to work well with my loads and not build up excessive plastic in a tournament. I want a lot don't I. lol Allen aka wam |