Extended choke benefits ?

But the extra metal of the longer choke holds extra heat and if it wasn’t there then there would be no extra heat to dissipate.

I’m not trying to be argumentative but having 3 inches of choke tube is not going to draw heat out of 30 inches of barrel, that’s all and I think your friend is wrong.
 
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Extended chokes are easier to install and remove without a tool, they usually say what choke they are on the knurled portion.

That said for me they don’t offer any real advantages, I pattern and pick a choke and aside from cleaning or the annual check to make sure I can remove it with my finger I never remove or change them.
 
Mr Bill said:
No one mentioned the fact that in the event of dropping or bumping your muzzle into something hard on the ground the extended choke takes the damage and can be replaced. Flush choke means the barrel itself gets dinged.
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Anyone that has ever had to remove a choke tube from a barrel that has been peened over by contact, is well aware of this. And if someone has to remove a choke tube , because it wasn't properly lubed, an extended choke tube offers more options to grip it for removal.
 
Well - They get you an inch closer to the target. This might help some of the lads at the club, who need every bit of help they can get. ;) Reminds me of a round of sporting clays I participated in years ago. People were changing their extended chokes at every station. I had to make do with my old Superposed - they felt sorry for me....
 
cosmic said:
Well - They get you an inch closer to the target. This might help some of the lads at the club, who need every bit of help they can get. ;) Reminds me of a round of sporting clays I participated in years ago. People were changing their extended chokes at every station. I had to make do with my old Superposed - they felt sorry for me....
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I stopped blaming my choke tubes for my misses quite a few ago, these days I still change them once in a while but for the most part I usually finish a round of sporting clays with the same choke tubes in the gun that I started with.
I've often toyed with the idea of getting a fixed choke sporting gun choked mod and mod.
 
G_Alan said:
Tool less changes , more of an issue with target guns . But its nice just to grab the end of the tube instead of looking for your wrench in your range bag.
In theory the longer length allows a different cross section to offer a longer transition in the choke constriction or whatever geometry the manufacture is looking for. It also allows for porting and or marking a visible indication of the chokes constriction .
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Yep. The other great benefit is that if somehow the muzzle bangs against something hard, the extended choke takes the hit. On flush mount, the edge of the barrel is now deformed.
 
Grouse Man said:
Yep. The other great benefit is that if somehow the muzzle bangs against something hard, the extended choke takes the hit. On flush mount, the edge of the barrel is now deformed.
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Yep, that’s about the only advantage I see to them other than possibly easier removal. I had bought after market extended tubes for my Huglu 28g O/U hoping it would improve the patterning performance, little to no improvement other than making my wallet a little lighter.
 
I typically remove my choke tubes every couple of thousand shots, clean the threads, apply new anti seize, then reinstall and shoot them for another couple of thousand shots.But I do check often to verify that the choke tubes are still tight, and extended choke tubes make that easy to do without any tools.
 
Grouse Man said:
Yep. The other great benefit is that if somehow the muzzle bangs against something hard, the extended choke takes the hit. On flush mount, the edge of the barrel is now deformed.
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^^^^ This ^^^^ is another very good reason to go extended !
I was doing some maintenance on my newly acquired 425 Citori receiver...replacing firing pins and springs, cleaning up the internals. I moved my barrels over to my right...I set them up on top of my range bag..before I could grab em, they slid off and down onto the concrete floor !!! Choke end first ! Even tho there was a rubber backed mat there, I creased my Diana grade IC choke good ! Not saying that the barrel would have dented...but I figure that it would have !
 
Extented tubes allow a smoother longer choke transition for larger size steel shot also make for a more robust and stronger tube with steel shot. Big steel shot really pounds choke tubes.
 
Thanks for all the informative replies.

I passed on buying the chokes.

Closing in on 70 and I've never had a dented or damaged muzzle that prevented choke removal.

I've never had one get stuck in the barrel either.

As for coming loose, I stick my finger in the barrel and if the choke turns I just grab my Keychain choke key and snug it.

Just cleaned these in the ultrasonic cleaner a few days ago.

A thin film of grease on the threads and it's probably close to the last time I'll ever have to do it.

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Falconflyer said:
Don't take this the wrong way Hunter7 because I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, it's just that most people don't spend enough time at the pattern board to really verify results. It takes a lot of rounds and testing to prove anything on the pattern board, it's too time consuming for most shooters.
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I have done quite a bit of patten testing with the several types of the ammo I had available, not a huge selection of 28g ammo around, and with various chokes. It seems no matter what combination I tried, always blowing a hole in the centre of the pattern. Use a more open choke makes a bigger donut. As per some people blaming the factory chokes and to try extended aftermarket tubes, I have and get the same result.
 
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