At the end of this practice day, on targets from close to perhaps 60 yards, quartering to crossing, fast to medium speed, to barely moving. 99+% of those missed would have been from shooter error and not because of chokes. If your guns POA and POI are in tune, fuss over chokes if you want, but your misses will almost entirely be on you and not choke.
Sage observation, that.
A local shotgun smith would insist on fine tuning a gunner's stance/technique and gun fit (which is a whole 'nother topic- relatively well fitting is ok IMO, after that p-r-a-c-t-i-c-e) before he would consent to cutting steel.
I used to fret a lot over chokes, and 20+ years ago I was one of those guys who was spinning choke tubes at nearly every SC station. Then, like so many other aspects of the shooting games, with old(er) age came wisdom. Sort of. Maybe.
