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Sporting clays and five-stand continue to grow in popularity, as
shotgun enthusiasts are challenged with ever-changing targets. Stay
on top of the shooting game and stock the right choke tubes to keep
up with the challenges thrown at today’s shooter.
If your customers are serious about sporting clays,
they will need to spend some time at the range
shooting a variety of shot sizes, brands, and weights
to determine optimal performance. Every shotshell,
choke tube, and shotgun combination can aff ect your
customers pattern. Th e only way to know how any
given combination performs is to pattern it at the
distance you hope to see it perform.
A sporting clay strategist will carry a variety of
diff erent choke tubes to cover the needs and target
presentations on any given course.
Sporting clays and fi ve-stand are set up to simulate
hunting situations. Flushing a pair in close requires a
much diff erent choke than a high, overhead passing
target. A target crossing left to right at 45 yards
will frustrate any shooter not prepared for a fast,
intermediate target. Shooting patterns from 20 to 70
yards will quickly show any serious shotgunner how
to optimize their sporting clay game for various target
presentations.
Pattern boards are easy to make by drawing an
aiming dot in the middle of a paper or on cardboard.
Using a 15in string and a marking pen, draw a 30in
diameter circle around your aiming dot. When you
shoot at the pattern board, you can determine the
percentage of the eff ective pattern by counting the total
number of pellets in the 30in circle, divided by the total
number of pellets in the shotshell, times 100.
Trulock Choke Tubes specializes in tapered
constriction tubes that maximize the percentage of
pellets on target at a variety of ranges. A shooter that
analyses targets, and changes choke tubes at stations
with diff erent target distances will quickly increase the
total number of broken targets.
Sporting clay shooters should carry a minimum of
three chokes for close, mid and long-range targets. Th e
three most popular Trulock choke constrictions for
sporting clays are Skeet 1 for close range, Skeet 2(Lite
Modifi ed) for mid-range, and Improved Modifi ed
for long range. Th ese constrictions work well on any
sporting clay or fi ve-stand course.
Choke tubes are a sporting clay competitor’s best
friend. Let your customers tackle their next course with
a full assortment of chokes and break more clays.
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