Stuck choke
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huntershooter
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Try soaking with "Liquid Wrench" overnight. Choke should be "Full".
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Sometimes sticking the barrel in a Chest Freezer works...
Sometimes shooting and trying to remove with barrel "really really warm" helps.
Various penetrates work, such as Ballistol, Kroil...
Sometimes shooting and trying to remove with barrel "really really warm" helps.
Various penetrates work, such as Ballistol, Kroil...
ZeSpectre
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Kano Kroil oil and time.
http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpage.exe/showproduct?saleitemid=137203
Put the Kroil in and let it set overnight. Tap the end -VERY GENTLY- with a rubber or plastic mallet a few times and try to unscrew. Repeat if necessary.
Do NOT HAMMER HARD on the end of the barrel or the choke. All you are trying to do is get it to break loose and you don't want to dent or ding anything. DO NOT use a metal hammer!
Once it's out you can try wiping all your choke tube threads with a little high temperature bearing grease to prevent future issues.
http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpage.exe/showproduct?saleitemid=137203
Put the Kroil in and let it set overnight. Tap the end -VERY GENTLY- with a rubber or plastic mallet a few times and try to unscrew. Repeat if necessary.
Do NOT HAMMER HARD on the end of the barrel or the choke. All you are trying to do is get it to break loose and you don't want to dent or ding anything. DO NOT use a metal hammer!
Once it's out you can try wiping all your choke tube threads with a little high temperature bearing grease to prevent future issues.
Thanks guys, I do have Kroil soaking in right now and I used a hair drier to heat the barrel up but didn't work, maybe after the Kroil sets in.... If all this doesn't work I'll stick it in the freezer.
It's a dirt cheap shotgun and the only thing wrong is this stuck choke, but I still have yet to shoot it.
It's a dirt cheap shotgun and the only thing wrong is this stuck choke, but I still have yet to shoot it.
win71
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You may have to leave it in there. At the end of duck season there are usually several o/u in and out of the local gunsmiths shop. He uses the same methods as mentioned here, but on occasion he comes across one that flat won't come out.
I shoot upland game and am not usually in the rain or snow. I check mine two or three times a season.
Kingcreek
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The Kroil is working, give it overnight or longer. prop it muzzle-down and shoot a little more Kroil down the tube before you go to bed.
tomorrow, put it in the freezer for an hour or 2.
Then try using a choke wrench with the 1/4" square drive (remington) and add a ratchet for leverage.
tomorrow, put it in the freezer for an hour or 2.
Then try using a choke wrench with the 1/4" square drive (remington) and add a ratchet for leverage.
Kingcreek
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unstuck yet?
ZeSpectre
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I was wondering too, man the suspense is killing me! 
Preventing Stuck choke
The best thing for preventing stuck chokes in the future is putting a little dab of molyb silicone crease on your threads once in a while. As a retired combat arms troop we used molyb on the threads of M16 recievers when we had to rebarrel them. This makes it easier to remove the locking ring when the barrels have to be replaced again.
The best thing for preventing stuck chokes in the future is putting a little dab of molyb silicone crease on your threads once in a while. As a retired combat arms troop we used molyb on the threads of M16 recievers when we had to rebarrel them. This makes it easier to remove the locking ring when the barrels have to be replaced again.
GlowinPontiac
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what about using anti-seize compound on the threads?
I have a big ol' bottle of the stuff you use when you put sparkplugs in. would it work or would it cause the tube to fall out or damage the barrel?
I have a big ol' bottle of the stuff you use when you put sparkplugs in. would it work or would it cause the tube to fall out or damage the barrel?
I use Tetra Gun Grease and Outers graphite lube on my choke tubes.
I don't see why any good anti-seize grease wouldn't work just as well and I really doubt the tube will unscrew itself and fall away because of the anti-seize.
I work nights as a machinist and we use anti-seize on securing screws and tool posts that fit in very heavy duty tool arbors and these tools cut extremely heavy, hard steel parts.
I have never seen a tool post pull free from an arbor or even seen a securing screw inadvertantly back out that has been greased.
If a tool does crash the anti-seize grease makes it a thousand times easier to break down the tool and repair it and the principal works the same for any choke tube I'm sure.
I have yet to freeze a choke tube that has been greased while shooting lead shot loads.
Steel shot is another issue.
I have had to remove quite a few choke tubes from guns that were shot heavily with steel shot loads.
Steel shot will eventually peen the choke tube into the threads of the barrel as it passes the constricted portion of the tube.
Even the very finest grease will not prevent this from happening.
I have a couple of heavy duty choke removers that screw expand into the inner walls of the choke tube and then the remover and choke tube are removed in one piece with a breaker bar.
The choke tube is trashed using this approach and the threads of the barrel have to be recut.
I hope this guy doesn't have to go to this extreme to remove his frozen tube.
I have become a very big fan of extended steel shot choke tubes that put the constricted portion of the choke out in front of the threaded area of the barrel.
I use these chokes myself and have yet to see one stuck in a barrel because the steel shot is peening into the choked area and not so much into the now open bored threaded area..
I don't see why any good anti-seize grease wouldn't work just as well and I really doubt the tube will unscrew itself and fall away because of the anti-seize.
I work nights as a machinist and we use anti-seize on securing screws and tool posts that fit in very heavy duty tool arbors and these tools cut extremely heavy, hard steel parts.
I have never seen a tool post pull free from an arbor or even seen a securing screw inadvertantly back out that has been greased.
If a tool does crash the anti-seize grease makes it a thousand times easier to break down the tool and repair it and the principal works the same for any choke tube I'm sure.
I have yet to freeze a choke tube that has been greased while shooting lead shot loads.
Steel shot is another issue.
I have had to remove quite a few choke tubes from guns that were shot heavily with steel shot loads.
Steel shot will eventually peen the choke tube into the threads of the barrel as it passes the constricted portion of the tube.
Even the very finest grease will not prevent this from happening.
I have a couple of heavy duty choke removers that screw expand into the inner walls of the choke tube and then the remover and choke tube are removed in one piece with a breaker bar.
The choke tube is trashed using this approach and the threads of the barrel have to be recut.
I hope this guy doesn't have to go to this extreme to remove his frozen tube.
I have become a very big fan of extended steel shot choke tubes that put the constricted portion of the choke out in front of the threaded area of the barrel.
I use these chokes myself and have yet to see one stuck in a barrel because the steel shot is peening into the choked area and not so much into the now open bored threaded area..
Dave McCracken
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Been using Anti Seize Compounds on my choke tubes for a year or two. Works fine.
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