Modernize choke threads?

[esheato]

Why hasn't a company come up with a better method to change chokes?

I shoot sporting clays occasionally and changing chokes is always time consuming. Additionally the rapid wrenches is another tool to buy and carry.

I'm a bit of a Browning guy, but have owned Benelli and Mossberg also...most chokes are very finely threaded.

Why hasn't anyone implemented something like the Hornady Lock-N-Load system or even some interrupted threads?

Is it barrel thickness or pressure/energy that is holding back the design?

 

[rcmodel]

Well, interrupted threads like a Hornady L&L, or even courser threads that unscrewed faster would require a muzzle thickness about like a gas pipe compared to the thin light muzzles now used..

Brownings new Invector-DS™ choke system introduced with the new A5 seems to be the biggest improvement since choke tubes were invented.

They have a bouble bronze seal to keep crud out of the threads.

http://www.browning.com/library/infonews/detail.asp?id=374

rc

 

[rcmodel]

double-tap

 

[esheato]

I never had much trouble with crud in the threads....but plastic lining the inside of the tube is a different story!

If someone could come with a way to secure a choke with a 1/4 turn, they be in the money.

 

[esheato]

Ha...double tap too.

 

[browningguy]

I don't know, it takes all of 15-20 seconds to screw in a choke tube, doesn't seem that big an issue to me.

 

[oneounceload]

Use extended chokes and no wrench is necessary. Use grease on the threads and they will stay put when shooting but will be easy to remove when necessary

 

[Virginian]

If you make it simple, some numb nuts is going to screw it up and sue. This is America after all.

 

[BigJimP]

Current system is fine with me....( Browning Invector Plus / Benelli Crio, etc..../ and while I do use extended chokes...but I don't use any wrenches, even on flush chokes, just put them in finger tight.

Crud in the threads or the choke ..are no big deal / they should be cleaned after every range trip anyway - in my view / just like the rest of the gun.

 

[jmr40]

Put a polychoke on it if you want to change it fast. Most would be better not changing so often anyway. I like the current system better than any other options available.

 

[jaguarxk120]

jmr40 your right on the PolyChoke. I think they make a PolyChoke unit for threaded barrels.

 

[esheato]

I do use extended and thread anti-seize....it was just an idea, jeez guys.

 

[oneounceload]

Polychoke is a joke - who wants to add all that weight right at the end of the muzzle? Talk about screwing up any form of swing dynamics.

If you use extended and anti-seize, then you answered your own question...