A buddy in Virginia sent me a Jebs Headhunter .650 Crio choke to try in my SBE.....I messaged him after I shot it "hope you didn't plan on getting it back".


The stock is 22 years old...the Cerakote on the action is 4 or 5 years old....I just bought the 24" Crio barrel Cobalt colored Cerakote is fresh on it. The scope is about 20 years old.

Winchester 3.5" 2oz #4 Longbeards 25 yards

24" wide paper at 50 yards....Ol'Jeb is ready to roll.

I have never owned a Jeb's but have seen enough patterns out of them to know that they are good stuff.
IC, and Rhino were/are my go to chokes. Like I said I know Jeb's are good as well as others.
If starting from scratch with a new gun and or load, I like to save myself time and headaches and buy a good choke. I know others get great patterns with less expensive chokes, I just have never had any luck with them.

With one exception, back when I shot 12 ga I tried a Remington Ventilator and it flat shot great. I hunted with one for several years.

What surprised me was the fact that there was no adjustment needed when I swapped out the Patternmaster Code Black Turkey and the Jebs.

Patternmaster Code Black Turkey on the left and Jebs on the right....at 25 yards.

The results are a close call in performance at 25 and at 50 yards....Jebs choke wins because it has the most sex appeal.

The Jeb's does look a hair bit tighter to me.

Nice patterns, nice gun, nice scope.

You told me Jeb's don't shoot straight! Lol! If those patterns don't do it, I don't know what will. But just imagine how much better they'd be if you sprinkled a little "fairy dust" in with it! Haha!

That’ll rock his wagon! And with the 3.5” loads, it rocks both ends of the wagon!! 🤣 Great patter man. I had a Jeb’s turkey choke for my M2 20ga that was terrible with any shell so I returned it.

I have one for my TC Encore that shoots nice round tight patterns like those above.

I told you a buddy that had a Burris fast fire said his was off from his other choke.

I had an acquaintance that bought a Jebs....he liked the pattern it shot but it was bad off right or left.

Not to nit-pick, but... Lol!

It's all good. Picked up a couple PatterMasters for the new SX4 20ga headed my way. The turkey and the duck, I like messing with this stuff.

Might have been the Burris

I shot a scope one year back about 2002 or 3 (this very model)....I killed 6 or 8 turkeys with it....then disaster happened.

I had been sitting for quite a while and I had slid down the tree....turkey slipped in no way to slip back up the tree without the turkey seeing me....I finally got my head close enough to see a half circle of clear sky through the scope....lined her up and bOOm.....I missed.

So I took the scope off and went back to shooting beads....I don't sit low low to the ground anymore so sliding down the tree is not a problem anymore so i put the scope back on.

The Jeb was free to test plus now i have a way to adjust my point of aim.

I'm still not dead sold on the Jeb I plan on doing one more comparison test on the two next week.

The only range at my club that has a 25 yard...is set up 25 and 50 yards....50 yards is kinda stretching it.

I need to shoot both chokes at 30 and 40 yards off a rest.

Those chokes are made so you can screw them in partially to get the desired pattern. Change the choke by 1/4 turn any way and get high; low; right; left; and bingo, you have a multi patterning shotgun.

You're thinking about one of the dial a chokes made by a girl name of Polly.

You could do that with any choke tube, tighten it down, then back if off from a 1/4 to a 3/4 inch turn, create a gap between the bottom of the tube and the barrel ledge, make the tube even looser with every shot, create more problems over time, etc, etc. Of just get a tube that shoots straight.

Oh, wait, that was a joke. I get it now.

Sad thing is somebody on the internet will read that and try it......

Sad but true

Actually, they probably won't actually try it but instead will pass it on as if it were gospel and some secret of the pro's that they were secretly privy to.

Me and Ol'Jeb made one last trip to the range.

The range first range I shot on only had 25 and 50 yard target positioning....this spot only has a 40 yard set up.

Pretty good pattern for #4 shot.

I would say you are ready to go with the Jeb's.

The Patternmaster Code Black Turkey I had been shooting was a close runner up...it had a few silver dollar sized open spots close to the two inch orange dot.

Just because I'm a masochist, I'll try taking the barrel off, putting it back on and see what it is...