<P style="MARGIN: 0px">You can cut way back on the swatter shots you need to use by using a decent patterning load/choke combination. I have to fire very few swatter shots at birds I have hit during the course of a season.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">When I did some pattern testing for Drundel on The Refuge, he was using Kent 3" 1 1/8 oz. #3 steel shells. He was dissatisfied with the patterns he was getting from them with his factory and Briley chokes in his SBE and since I was posting about the improvement I had seen in my Nova's patterning with the .675" Terror, he sent me some shells to test with it before he layed out the money for a Terror choke.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">If you go to his website, click on his underlined name, which will bring you to the patterns he shot. Look at the Kent 3" 1 1/8 oz. #3 patterns he shot at 40 yards with his chokes, including a Briley IM. Then, click on my name and go down the page about 3/4's of the way to the notation, "April 22, 2004", on the left side of the page and there are five patterns I shot with the same load at 40 yards, but with the .675" Terror. The improvement is quickly apparent.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Terror chokes were initially developed by a couple of fellows who liked the way the Italian guns felt to them and functioned, but were dissatisfied with how they patterned fast steel loads. With the Terror chokes, they came up with a solution to the probem.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">I had been trying to convince Big Mexican to spend some money on a .675" Terror choke for his SBE and buy some decent fast steel shells instead of the Cheap Mart afterseason clearance sale shells he normally purchased, to cut down on crippling. After finally springing for one, and using some Kent fast steel 2's for a season, he admitted that he had to fire considerably fewer swatter shots and, in spite of the tighter patterns, did not miss any more than he would normally have, shooting a modified. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Of course, Big Mexican is a good shot. A Terror choke would not be of much help to a bad shot, except to allow him to make his misses more cleanly. But buying decent patterning fast shells with shot sizes #3 or #2, instead of #4 steel (except for teal), will go a long way in cutting down on cripples.</P>