Predator Choke?

[pyth0n]

I was reading a readers letter in Shooting Illustrated, commenting on home defense firearms. He said he used a 20ga with #4 buckshot & a predator choke & used it for coyotes out to 70 yds. I'm not a regular shotgunner & never heard of a predator choke.
Is it an extra full, extra-extra full choke, a Brand name, or just his personal preference he chose to call it that?

 

[krw]

Go to Nitro Ammunition website. They hav breakdown diff popular shotguns, with choke recommendations. Their tungsten Turkey loads are bad-to-the-Bone!!

 

[Mobuck]

I've got to say I have very little confidence in the effectiveness of #4 shot on coyotes @ 70 yards.
I've shot a few coyotes with #4 at much shorter ranges with poor results.

 

[pyth0n]

I've got to say I have very little confidence in the effectiveness of #4 shot on coyotes @ 70 yards.
I've shot a few coyotes with #4 at much shorter ranges with poor results.

That was meant to read #4 BUCKSHOT. Carlson's choke tubes makes that 70 yard claim.

 

[krw]

Tungsten shot ammo is expensive, but is THE Gamechanger. It puts shotshells in a totally new category!!

 

[Watertender]

#4 Buckshot is a 12 gauge load usually. 20-gauge Buckshot is normally #3. I had someone tell me that he wanted 20-gauge OO Buckshot and I told him that it would be almost impossible to find.
I offered him some 20-gauge #3 and he said he wanted only OO. Later when he asked if I had any of the #3 I told him that I didn't have any left. Let him figure it out on his own

 

[RonandJanet]

That got me looking too! I think it may have been referring to the brand Predator made by Kicks. It is advertised as a choke for shooting coyotes!

 

[Novsek03]

"Predator choke" is not a standardized choke constriction like Improved Cylinder or Full. Instead, it's primarily a marketing term used by choke tube manufacturers to designate a choke that is optimized for shooting slugs and large, heavy shot (like buckshot) at longer ranges for the purpose of hunting predators like coyotes and foxes.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

I have a Kicks Howler choke for my Mossberg 835. It's supposed to be optimized for the Dead Coyote loads. The ones I have are T shot, I have some 3" loads and a few 3.5". I will measure it here in a bit and see what the constriction is.
EDIT: my caliper wouldn't reach far enough inside the choke to measure the constriction. It was getting tighter the farther in I went (from the breech end - the muzzle end of the choke is a brake).