How much choke is too much

[Rawroots]

My new akela reduces dia. of projectile from .1775 to .173 Isn't it too much , it leaves tails of lead.

 

[nervoustrig]

Yeah that's a heavy choke. With a starting point of 0.1775, a couple thousandths would probably be more optimal. Doesn't necessarily mean it will perform poorly but if it's like most barrels, bore roughness will exacerbate the tendency to leave trailing bits behind the head and skirt so if you can give it a good scrubbing, it may improve substantially. Whether it's fire lapping, a cast lap, or a compressible lap (e.g. jag+cotton patches+JB).

 

[Rawroots]

Yeah that's a heavy choke. With a starting point of 0.1775, a couple thousandths would probably be more optimal. Doesn't necessarily mean it will perform poorly but if it's like most barrels, bore roughness will exacerbate the tendency to leave trailing bits behind the head and skirt so if you can give it a good scrubbing, it may improve substantially. Whether it's fire lapping, a cast lap, or a compressible lap (e.g. jag+cotton patches+JB).

Yes seems too much unfortunately i already polished barrel thinking the same way.

 

[nervoustrig]

Can you get a close-up photo of a pellet or two? Something like this:

 

[Rawroots]

Can you get a close-up photo of a pellet or two? Something like this:
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I'd have to remove the barrel again to get pictures but the pellet on left would be pretty close . I pushed pellet up to choke area then back thru breach, it looked fine, with very lite rifling marks .

 

[dizzums]

my cayden in .22 mashes them out to .20 size cylinders and it shoots lights out to 80yds ... just polish out the choke transition area well ..

 

[Rawroots]

Amazing