In the long-gone days of lead shot, choosing chokes for waterfowling was simple: the fuller, the better. A few hunters picked Modified for over-decoy shooting, but more often than not, in those days ...

In general, upland hunters use too little choke and waterfowlers use too much. Waterfowlers fixate on tight patterns at 50 yards even though their goal is to shoot ducks and geese over decoys at less ...