I also like shotguns, but I’ve stopped putting chokes on them. You can do some random long-range bullshittery with a choked shotgun, but you can also miss people who are standing right there. Or at least I can. The time I knocked a guy down at Mylta Power and went to finish him off with a choked shotgun and missed his prone body entirely from five feet away was the last straw.
So I ignore chokes now because when I pull the shotgun trigger I want everything in an eight foot circle in front of me to have a very bad day indeed.