I’m pretty sure chutes is a common/primary spelling of shoots
“shoot” can be an alternative spelling of “chute” but a “chute” does not have the same meaning as this kind of shoot.
One of the definitions of “shoot” is “a young branch or sucker springing from the main stock of a tree or other plant.”
And another definition is “variant spelling of chute”
But the definitions of “chute” don’t include anything about plants.
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Looks like I’ve been spelling it incorrectly for years. Bamboo arguably does convey water, but yeah I guess that’s a stretch.
Haha, yeah, a bamboo chute is certainly possible, and you could spell it bamboo shoot, but it would be different from a 竹の子 
have to be honest, i’ve never heard shoot used in the sense of chute before :o
makes the term ‘turkey shoot’ seem much more disturbing…
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Bamboo chute would be 竹製の樋. Or at least, that’s the phrasing that Wikipedia uses in the 流し素麺 article. 
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