Stuck choke tube

[2busy]

That is thin metal but for thick like a bearing race that does not want to come off you can weld a bead onto it and as the weld cools
it will shrink the race and make it easier to remove

Yes many times the race will fall out. Being so thin, I'd be worried about burning the barrel.

 

[swampratt]

Or burn through and weld it all together would worry me.
It will eventually come out i bet.

 

[HFS]

If this thread has done nothing else it did make me double check the choke on my A5.........all is well.

It makes me NEVER want a shotgun with a choke tube.

 

[El Pablo]

It makes me NEVER want a shotgun with a choke tube.

Or use anti-seize and remove them often. Curios how long his daughter-in-law (edit) left the choke in, and how many shells went through it.

 

[swampratt]

I have an A5 with a swelled barrel and it is no longer able to accept a threaded in choke.

All the chokes I tried did not pattern as tight as an old stevens pump I have that is a fixed full choke.
My grandfathers A5 was an odd duck with a very thin rusty colored barrel that would punch a hole through a tin barn wall at 40 yards.

I could not shoot quail with the old #5 shot he had unless they were past 60 yards.
You would just end up with vaporized bird.
That one was stolen by some relatives (Pinsons) Yea I said it.

 

[dlbleak]

It my DIL’s gun. My son decided he’d start hunting ducks with her 20 last year. He cleaned it after last season with no problem. He ordered a new Briley duck choke to use the second half of the season. Old choke wouldn’t come out so here we are.

 

[swampratt]

I hunted ducks with a 20 single shot before steel shot was on the scene.
Man i had a lot of issues killing them dead.
I used #4 lead and probably should have stepped up the size.

I later got a 12 gauge pump and WOW what a difference that made.
I shot 2 3/4 #4 from it and ducks died quickly.

I quit after steel shot came around until a couple years ago and I shot 2 Canadians with #4 steel.
Yep was not a good load.

I stripped off my clothing down to my whitey tighties and ran into the water to get the birds before they could fly away wounded.
Have not shot waterfowl since.

I have steel BB now for the 12 gauge.
I used to dump my #4 lead loads and fill the case with copperhead BB's back in the early 80's to reach way out.
They held pattern farther out than the lead.

 

[OKCHunter]

I hunted ducks with a 20 single shot before steel shot was on the scene.
Man i had a lot of issues killing them dead.
I used #4 lead and probably should have stepped up the size.

I later got a 12 gauge pump and WOW what a difference that made.
I shot 2 3/4 #4 from it and ducks died quickly.

I quit after steel shot came around until a couple years ago and I shot 2 Canadians with #4 steel.
Yep was not a good load.

I stripped off my clothing down to my whitey tighties and ran into the water to get the birds before they could fly away wounded.
Have not shot waterfowl since.

I have steel BB now for the 12 gauge.
I used to dump my #4 lead loads and fill the case with copperhead BB's back in the early 80's to reach way out.
They held pattern farther out than the lead.

 

[Gunbuffer]

It my DIL’s gun. My son decided he’d start hunting ducks with her 20 last year. He cleaned it after last season with no problem. He ordered a new Briley duck choke to use the second half of the season. Old choke wouldn’t come out so here we are.

Didn’t you already say that on page 3?

 

[dlbleak]

Didn’t you already say that on page 3?

Yes, just clarifying post 164