Thread: Stuck Chokes

Originally Posted by ONYVA

do not use an easy out , on a thin wall choke it will expand it outwards and do more damage. you can buy an aerosol can from engineering supplies that can freeze metal with its spray, i would heat the outside gently then spray inside the choke to shrink it after soaking in penetrating oil, then try undoing it.

please note that modern freeze sprays are bloody flammable, they used to be CFC based, nowadays its pretty much LPG !

Originally Posted by Gapped axe

feked the barrel.

Typical Plumbers job huh!!!

yup and Doli did it for free

Back in the day years ago before I went to Oz and actually went shooting in the rain etc, I heard horror stories about stuck chokes, rusted in etc.
Being the good fitter I thought I was I came up with the cunning plan to use a light smear of copper coat on the choke.
Works a treat, its slightly greasy, transfers onto the next choke a bit and I'm not worried about the choke coming undone as there is always a little grab on the thread.
its been in there for 20 years now in some horrid weather and many hundreds of shots through it so I will keep doing so.

dare I say it mine has vaso on it.....seems to work ok in tight spaces.....

Copper coat is good stuff. Lasts forever.

Copper coat is good stuff. Lasts forever. Caso only lasts 5min max.: thumbsup:

Originally Posted by CATLINS HUNTER

Copper coat is good stuff. Lasts forever. Caso only lasts 5min max.: thumbsup:

Bloody stupid computer.

I live in fear of the "stuck choke" disease so my Trap Gun is stored minus chokes. The choke in my 870 however is un-removable so there it shall stay

Not wanting to thread hijack, but who actually bothers changing chokes. I think I’ve moved mine twice on two different guns. Duck gun has imp cyl in it, and only comes out to be cleaned, never run anything different. Then again, I’m a pretty rubbish duck shooter...

Generally I agree. I don't swap willy nilly but I swap from the tighter choke I used when I was shooting rabbits with lead shot to the one I use with steel for ducks

I keep a 1/2 in the semi, no matter what, don't even know if it will come out.
U/O gets changed a bit, from skeet/skeet to 1/4 and full depending on shooting.
I am also shit at shooting ducks, I like the fuckers sitting still and not to far away.

1/4 winchoke for first hour of the day and the last hour....also for tight spot jumpshooting...the imp mod 3/4 goes in for geese,middle of the day and any time I think shots maybe longer. they both work well and truth be known I could leave either in and be happy.... it does make a difference and birds in close get cut up with tighter choke.

LM and Skeet in my trap gun although sometimes full and extra full but I shoot neither better or worser with either setup.
1/4 and 1/4 in my 20g "hunting gun"
and 1/2 in my Rem 870 cause thats whats stuck in it,

Shoot about the same with all of em.

Auto 5 is full choke barrelled and my favourite field gun by far. Such a pitty it cant take steel. I havnt changed the 3/4 in the extreema since I got it. The only gun I regularly change chokes in is my o/u for skeet and dtl, as I tried skeet once with 3/4 and full and didnt go so well.