Can't remove stuck choke..?

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I have a Winchester SX3 and I run a Briley external LM choke. I was cleaning up the gun today and tried to remove the choke to clean, but to no avail... I tried clamps and all but it just wouldn't give..? I see a small amount of rust on the threads of the choke which I assume is the problem (due to my negligence :().

Any good idea to solve this problem?
 
OK don't get excited and use a wrench and bugger up the choke! Patience is king in this instance.

Get your hands on a can of Kroil. It is a highly effective penetrating oil. Brownell is the only one I know who carries it, but do a search on the internet and see what you come up with. I bought a can from my local gun shop and he has never had any more since. The guy who runs the shop has used this stuff to loosen up and take crud out of a rifle bore and also he used it to loosen up a stuck choke more than once.

You apply a few drops around the choke with the barrel muzzle up - hold it in a vise with proper padding around the jaws of course. The next day you reapply a few drops and keep doing this for a week or two. Then give it a try and see if it has loosened up.

I had a sight screw on a pistol that was completey frozen and I had given up on it as I was just going to bugger up the screw head if I kept trying and lost my patience. So I just put some Kroil on it and placed the pistol in a plastic bag and put it in the back of the safe and forgot about that frustrating little bugger for almost a year. One day I was going through the guns and decided to take it out and just tried the screw on the sight and voila it was completey free!!!

Good luck in getting that choke loosened up. To prevent this always remove chokes after every use while cleaning bore and apply a good coat of oil before screwing back in.

CD
 
I'll let you in on a little trick. Try firing 5-6 steel shotshells through the gun quick, then turn the choke out.

Friction = heat.:)
 
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Reliable Gun in Vancouver stocks Kroil.

If the tube is really stuck you can get a piece of brass, steel or aluminum rod that fits the bore of the tube and cement it in the tube with 5-minute epoxy (clean the bore and rod with acetone first). Make sure the epoxy only goes on the bore of the tube, not the barrel! Allow the epoxy to cure well (overnight) and then unscrew the tube using a suitable gripping device on the barrel. Once the tube and attached rod are out you can heat them up with a torch to soften the epoxy. This does not destroy the temper of the tube material as long as you do not heat it beyond 500 F. I have used this method many times and have yet to have it fail.
 
I would let your barrel stand upright in a pot of quality penetrating oil overnight, covering the choke. Then do what Blargon said - Fire a few 3 inch 1550 fps. It may well turn right out.
 
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