Cracked Choke

KySongDog · February 12, 2009, 10:21:32 PM

Quote from: alscalls on February 12, 2009, 02:33:04 PM
The threaded portion of the choke would be hit hardest by the steel shot......settling as it exits the end.

If your theory is right, ALL chokes in an 835 should show cracks and damage when using steel shot.

Yet the open chokes don't show the stress damage that the full choke shows with steel shot. The constriction is at the end of the barrel, not where the choke threads in to the barrel on an 835.

alscalls · February 13, 2009, 04:23:29 AM

A choke made for steel shot is designed not to crack with use of steel shot or lead...........a choke made for Lead Only is marked as such and no part of the design is made to crack.
The choke in question is thicker at the end and moves with the harmonics of the barrel, the threads move with the harmonics as well as swelling in the small gap in between the threads and is clearly the weakest point, when miss used.

KySongDog · February 13, 2009, 06:00:58 AM

OK. I wonder too if the gas pressure is higher than normal as the gun tries to shove the steel shot out of the small choke.

I could see how that higher pressure might crack the threaded portion of the choke.

Bopeye · February 13, 2009, 06:39:27 AM

Maybe you boys need to grab the narrow end of your tube and choke it. Did that sound right?

:roflmao:

Silencer · February 13, 2009, 02:35:20 PM

roflmao !!!

:roflmao:

nastygunz · February 13, 2009, 03:44:16 PM

IM GETTIN A MIGRAINE.......

..........now as I recall back.....I only have 2 chokes for my 835, the turkey choke that came with it and the polychoke2 I use for everything else........I know better then to shoot steel through a full choke especially an XXfull choke....I was in Vermont hunting Fall turkey season and spotted some birds coming up the side of a corn field so I grabbed a couple of shells and the shotgun and hit the woods and went to cut them off at the edge of the field...which I did and nailed a tom from an ambush position....but in my hurry I had grabbed some #4 steel duck loads...which I did not notice until after I shot and then shucked the shell out........so I am thinking thats what cracked the choke...whenever I use steel in it for waterfowl I always use the polychoke2 now and same for buckshot, never had a problem since.

KySongDog · February 13, 2009, 09:22:05 PM

Quote from: Bopeye on February 13, 2009, 06:39:27 AM
Maybe you boys need to grab the narrow end of your tube and choke it. Did that sound right? :roflmao:

alscalls · February 13, 2009, 09:50:51 PM

The pressure is definitely getting higher now Semp............. :roflmao: :roflmao:@^^^