does porting affect hunting velocity??

[hofts]

went pheasant hunting with my new benelli cordoba and i must say i absolutely love it. i have put around 150 rounds thru her and man is she sweet. eleven of us limited in a few hrs north of pierre sd. great hunt, anyway,

i have no regrets going with the 30 inch tube, i have had 28 all my life and the 30 just plain felt better to me. i use this gun 95% for hunting upland game, waterfowl, and anyway happy i made the choice i did. hell i even shot very well with it at the skeet range!.

as far as the ported barrel goes, is it louder....yes. did it affect me or anyone else pheasant hunting ......not at all. at the skeet range.....not at all.. would i take it into a pit blind with no one having ear protection........hell no.@!!!

any way, great purchase for me .. i really like the finger screw out chokes, as it was nice to quickly change from mod to cylinder when we hit a covey of huns. it is extremely smooth and reliable, and fast, and so easy to clean. i will never own gas again. but i do love my o/u's as well.

[JimHnSTL]

fabs, the first time i shot it with the ported choke on the bottom, i did however switch barrels after all this because i too have always heard the same story on o/u recoil. it felt dif. no matter which barrel i placed it in. i was realy dumbfounded. all that being said i guess i shouldn't be totaly surpised as they are able to reduce felt recoil on a lot of rifles with muzzle breaks. with the two dif. chokes in the same gun at the same time and being able to fire one right after the other really gave me the oportunity to compare. i am not advocating all ported chokes will do this, and it may be more evident in a higher load such as a turkey load but i am confident that it did something in mine. i am not a novice shotgun shooter, for years back in the early eightys i shot "Meat Shoots" with the good-o-boys for sides of beef and such. there are a lot of gimmics out there for those guys too. so i'm a bit sceptical on most claims. maybe someone else with a o/u and a c-n-c turkey choke and try it too this spring and post their results. by the way got a great pattern out of it. i'm sold on chomp-n-choke products.

Originally posted by fabsroman
Jim,

Let me guess on this one. The ported choke was on the top barrel and the unported choke was on the bottom barrel.

I could be wrong, but I am willing to guess that is how you had it set up.

The reason for my guessing that way is because the top barrel on an o/u always has more recoil than the bottom barrel, even if you use the same chokes. Clay shooters will always shoot the bottom barrel first, and if only shooting a single shot, will always use the bottom barrel.

The reason for the increased recoil out of the top barrel is because the barrel is more out of line with your shoulder. In essence, the bottom barrel pushes the gun directly back into the shooter's shoulder but the top barrel tends to rotate the gun up into the shooter's face.

The results would only be magnified by a hot turkey load out of an o/u which provides no recoil help like an auto.

Let me know if my guess is correct.

[fabsroman]

Alrighty then, my assumption was incorrect. I have a ported Patternmaster choke on my SBE and never really thought there was a noticeable difference. Then again, I really didn't try it out.

I should try the experiment in one of my o/u's and see if I can feel the difference.

By the way, the hunting, fishing, and shooting sports have so many gimmics out there that it is ridiculous. I have gotten suckered a couple of times, but now I am really leery about what I buy.

[hofts]

i have never seen advertising of the patternmaster choke tubes say anything about recoil reduction. strictly tighter, more consistent patterns.

[JimHnSTL]

let me say that i bought the chokes based on pattern performance only. it wasn't until i shot a o/u back to back at two targets did i realize this. again while their was a difference in my book i really think that it has to do with the higher pressure loads. i'll have to shoot some regular loads out of the same gun and see if there is a diff. (noticeable)