As others have mentioned, use a high quality suitable lube or anti seize compound on the threads, there are many on the market offered or recommended by various gun and choke tube manufacturers. They’re made for the purpose, they work, easy- peasy. If a person is too cheap to buy the proper maintenance supplies then perhaps they should choose a different sport. If in spite of using a suitable lube you are worried about your choke tubes seizing, simply slightly unseat them and reseat them after a day of shooting, just to ease your mind that they aren’t seized.
Cleaning with screw-in chokes
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As others have mentioned, use a high quality suitable lube or anti seize compound on the threads, there are many on the market offered or recommended by various gun and choke tube manufacturers. They’re made for the purpose, they work, easy- peasy. If a person is too cheap to buy the proper maintenance supplies then perhaps they should choose a different sport. If in spite of using a suitable lube you are worried about your choke tubes seizing, simply slightly unseat them and reseat them after a day of shooting, just to ease your mind that they aren’t seized.
Now I have to go pull all my chokes just to give them a quick wipe and a smear of anti-sieze .... thanks
I guess it all depends on what you use your guns for Bill. My shotguns all shoot shot - bird shot. Well filled out evenly distributed patterns are the most effective for fast moving birds, small game or clays and well made fixed choke barrels deliver this in spades as well as being often better balanced and having one less potential problem area. Many, maybe most, shotgun users have no desire or reason to shoot buckshot or slugs, they don’t realistically have a security problem nor do they hunt big game with their shotgun, leaving that chore to rifles. Personally I like the idea of more specialized firearms over the general one gun does it all approach, it makes it easier to justify having more toys.
Never heard of such a thing. Now I have to have it. Thanks
I was originally expecting to buy something more liquidy, some sort of can with a brush or something... Then I saw the stick and instantly knew that was the one I wanted.
Its probably overpriced for the amount you get, but I'll gladly pay extra for the convenience and lack of mess. (And the small stick goes a long ways, I've been using mine for ~5 years and it still looks barely used. I bet I've used no more than a few mm of the stick, and wouldn't be at all surprised if 10 years from now I'm still using the same stick.)
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I fail to see how a choke weighing a couple oz’s balance better than a fixed choke barrel of the same length?
I shoot my shotguns 95% of the time while grouse hunting, I do no large game hunting with them. I do however really enjoy shooting slugs and buckshot for fun, plus a shotgun is the first thing I grab at night if there’s any predators I need to deal with on the farm where I have neighbors close by.
Let’s be honest, I’m sure most of us are like this. We don’t have one that does it all, we have many that do a lot of things well. I know if I grab any one of my choked shotguns regardless of barrel length and I have everything from 12.5” to 28” barrels, that they will all shoot birdshot, buckshot and slugs well wherever I aim them.
I think you underestimate the amount of people that own shotguns that don’t hunt or shoot clays regularly, there’s a lot of people shooting slugs and buckshot too. I’d go so far to say there’s more gun owners that shoot than hunt, so us hunters are the minority.
All my friends hunt with their shotguns, but they see far more rounds at the gravel pit than they do in a hunting scenario in a given year.
I clean my shotguns with the chokes in. I generally only remove the chokes once per year and re anti seize and install them. I do occasionally change the choke on my semi auto from the Patternmaster to a LM for a duck hunt, or change the chokes in my sporting clays guns, if there are extra long targets on the field.
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Yep, all my friends that don’t hunt only shoot at the gravel pit or up the fsr. I was reading some stat somewhere in a c-21 thread and the % of gun owners in Canada that hunt was definitely the minority of the two. I want to say 20-30% but I can’t remember the exact number.
A quick google search says that in 2020 there were 314,215 PAL holders in BC, but only 107,073 hunting licenses sold.
How many of the 200,000 people in B.C. that do not require a license to hunt, actually hunt?
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It was Canadian wide if I recall correctly.
No interest in hunting anymore but at the skeet and sporting range weekly. The guns I shoot are cleaned within a day with the barrels cleaned with the chokes in. Once a month the chokes of the guns I’ve shot are all soaked in “ Ed’s Red “ to remove any carbon or plastic fouling. When installed or in the case waiting my chokes are lubed with “ Break Free” which keeps any carbon in suspension till cleaned.
Where do you get "Ed's Red"? I've heard of it before but have never seen it at the gun stores.
A friend gave me some "Choke Tube Cleaner" to try---its made by Slip 2000.
So, I tried it this week---its somewhat stinky in my basement---would be better if used outdoors. Anyways, you put your choke tubes in this solution for 5-15 mins and then remove. It removed a lot of the carbon (and probably plastic) but certainly not all of it. I used a wire brush to get the stubborn stuff out.
I remove my choke tubes regularly, clean the threads and then apply some oil or light grease. I have found that the threads can attract moisture when its raining or even on high humidity days. About once or twice a year I remove the crud that accumulates on the inside of the chokes.
So, I tried it this week---its somewhat stinky in my basement---would be better if used outdoors. Anyways, you put your choke tubes in this solution for 5-15 mins and then remove. It removed a lot of the carbon (and probably plastic) but certainly not all of it. I used a wire brush to get the stubborn stuff out.
I remove my choke tubes regularly, clean the threads and then apply some oil or light grease. I have found that the threads can attract moisture when its raining or even on high humidity days. About once or twice a year I remove the crud that accumulates on the inside of the chokes.
You make it. Google is your friend, there is THE EDS RED, and then there's a million other variations on it.
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Falconflyer
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Most choke tubes get some build up of plastic from wads over time, some build up quickly and some hardly build up at all and sometimes you have to look close to see it. Of all the different choke tubes I've used Muller Featherweights seem to build up the least.
I don't have Muller chokes but friends do and, you're right they don't get build up, at least not much.
I don't think that Muller chokes are available in Canada any more, I understand, so can probably get them in the US. I order Briley chokes regularly from the US and they ship to Canada.
I believe the Muller featherweight chokes have a ceramic finish which is probably much smoother than a raw metal choke . I have had a set of 2 Muller chokes for 6 ish years I have never cleaned them any more than what they get when I clean the bores .
I seldom clean shotgun bores, but I will pull the chokes out once in awhile just to renew the nickel copper coat I put on them. If you shoot steel or just use oil or grease do it a lot. Stick a choke and you will hate life for awhile. If its a double that cost 7 to 10 times more than your first car, you may turn to drugs and alcohol or contemplate suicide.
