Which air rifles have choke - and why?

[bighit]

That's an internet myth mate,
I buy barrels from silco you buy them choked or un choked http://silco.co.uk/products/-BARREL-...WEIHRAUCH.html

I have a hw100 with no grooves, that's choked, I also have a HW98 with no grooves that's also choked so pay no attention to that old chestnut.

I meant the front sight mounts on the hw99s and other break barrel rifles . like this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...psbe6b99af.jpg


Unintentional chokes
So far, I’ve been talking about chokes that are intentionally put into the barrels, but there are the unintentional kind, as well. Certain spring rifles such as the HW 80 and older versions of the Beeman R1 used to come with sights. The barrels of those rifles had dovetail grooves for the front sight swaged into the front of the barrel. When the swage upset the outside of the barrel to make these grooves, the metal inside the bore was distorted just a little at the same time. If you push a pellet through these barrels, you’ll feel it pause when it gets to where the dovetails begin. This isn’t a real choke, but it does feel like one when you test for it this way. Shooters have referred to these as choked barrels for decades.

http://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2014/...hoke-a-barrel/


this was not where I originally read it though.