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I've heard alot of talk saying that the Briley LMOD is the best choke for waterfowl hunting out to 40 yds. What is y'alls experience with this choke.

I liked the extended LMOD so much, that I bought two. One for both barrells. I would highly recommend you get your hands on one.

I shoot 1&1/4 oz # 4 or 6's.

You have any shooting ability, you can smoke a duck at 35-40 yards with a light modified. I leave a LMod in all during duck season and never take it out. I try to keep my shots close, but a Lmod should give you enough juice at that range. I use Angleport tubes, but Briley makes a gold standard type tube, too.

Factory tubes can vary almost .008 due to QC issues. You would hate to be relying blind on an LMOD to shoot ducks and find out later it was a skeet choke, huh? Try miking some factory tubes some time. ESPECIALLY Browning tubes.

"Mr. GC, here is your true cylinder bore modified choke. And your 8 cylinder truck engine is really a 4 stroke Honda outboard. Have a nice day."

I must not have any shooting ability Mark!

I couldn't get my LM to pattern for squat in my SX-2. I was getting about 50-55% in a 30" circle with holes in the patteran that two ducks could fit in. The 55% in the circle was probably ok for killing but the holes were not acceptable.

As with everything else I guess, each gun shoots differently and the only way to find out it's (and your) limits is to take it to the field and shoot some targets with the loads you plan to hunt with.

Scott: Your right. Those patterns sound pretty aberant. Have you considered taking your gun out to a strip bar for a few beers. Works wonders

I must agree with Wngrog and Gulfcoast on the comments about choke tube quality of factory chokes. Being and avid shot gun reloader; especially for the 10 ga. mag , I have measured myshare of chokes..
More often that not a specialty choke will outshoot a factory chokes and the technology used in boring and honing chokes is most likely not intrgrated into the production of factry chokes. There is the tapered, paralell, with ir without wad strippers. Each gun manufacturer has there on QC about barrel bore diameter standards, which might vary as much as .008 inch. from one another; compared to indusrty stds. plus they might also vary with guns of the same make and model. Is the choke in the center of the the barrel bore? Is it crooked on the barrel bore? Does it mate flush inside the barrel bore?. If you send you barrel to have the choke fitted theprevious is checked and corrected. To keep this post from getting long and me getting flamed: lets just say this. If you dont like the way your gun, load, choke shoots. Change to another load and try that first. Its alot cheaper than a choke. All brands of shells are not equal. If that fails buy a choke.