Newb just bought his first shotgun Charles Daily 301 and its confusing me

[Painkillers]

I don't know what the breaching choke would be, cylinder I would think, looks cool, not much use unless you are playing Rambo, but would be fine with slugs,
Modified is good , for average distance, long range , full choke would be better.

Phone the store and see what was suppose to be with the gun, likely what you got, the only other I would like would be a skeet or IC, with is about the same.
That was what I used on pigeon's and magpies, those suckers are gun smart.
Put some grease on the choke threads, and take them out and clean and relube after use, I have seen choke tubes left for years in a gun and a pita to get out

Good advice here. I'll add that "never seize" the silver/grey stuff is the grease you should use on the threads. Further, these are really fine threads, ensure you don't cross thread anything by almost seating them by hand. Don't force anything, if it's tight, it ain't right.

 

[sin]

Good advice here. I'll add that "never seize" the silver/grey stuff is the grease you should use on the threads. Further, these are really fine threads, ensure you don't cross thread anything by almost seating them by hand. Don't force anything, if it's tight, it ain't right.

Great advice thanks. I used gun oil to lube and yes I notices some really thin line between crossthreding and smooth screw on. very fine threads.

Thanks everyone I have used the gun and fired some slugs with Breacher choke and it worked okay . no issues except gun itself is little bit jamomatic at times. maybe needs more break in time.

 

[Big Bad]

I see Charles Daly is coy about it but there's no reason to put a choke on the breacher unit, so you can consider it to be your cylinder choke. I would be shooting slugs out of that one and reserve the other two for hunting purposes. If in doubt, check the shot pattern you get using it.

 

[Big Bad]

One thought though: I remember when boxes of Foster style slugs used to say they were intended for best use with full choke shotguns. That would have been because every casual shooter buying a shotgun demanded full chokes so as not to be cheated by lesser ones (or self defeating reasoning to that effect). I haven't seen that advisory for years now and will go with the 'open choke is best idea-' however as always there's no harm in checking to see which choke works best, if you have the ammo to spare right now. I will note that 'tactical' shotguns almost universally come with fixed cylinder barrels and to get a choice of tubes is the exception rather than the rule.