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I'm going clay busting in the morning (For the first time in MONTHS), in 6 hrs time, so i checked my gun as an afterthought, about 12.30am, and the chokes had rusted to the barrels. I just spent nearly an hr with a pair of Swan necks /5 holes/plumbers pliers, and the barrels in my vice protected by a pair of work gloves, with the choke squealing like a slaughtered pig with every torturous turn. It's not REALLY bad rust, I reckon the choke is still viable, and the barrels are OK, on inspection in the light, but I feel like a prize plum.

Check your chokes. Now. Check 'em and oil 'em and don't make a twit of yourself like me.

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7 hours ago, tx4cabbie said:

I'm going clay busting in the morning (For the first time in MONTHS), in 6 hrs time, so i checked my gun as an afterthought, about 12.30am, and the chokes had rusted to the barrels. I just spent nearly an hr with a pair of Swan necks /5 holes/plumbers pliers, and the barrels in my vice protected by a pair of work gloves, with the choke squealing like a slaughtered pig with every torturous turn. It's not REALLY bad rust, I reckon the choke is still viable, and the barrels are OK, on inspection in the light, but I feel like a prize plum.

Check your chokes. Now. Check 'em and oil 'em and don't make a twit of yourself like me.

 A lesson to all that regular cleaning is an essential part of owning a gun.

 

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Look on the bright side. The worst that could have happened is you have to hacksaw your way into having a true cylinder skeet gun 🤔

Granted I don't have any multi choke guns but if I was storing a gun with chokes in for a while I would put some copper slip on them to prevent seizure

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A sad tale but the OP knows what he is! I shoot clays every week and actually enjoy cleaning my guns. Very satisfactory to clean off ever bit of grease and re lube every outing. I have been a sucker for specialist oils and greases all my shooting life, and whilst I realise that a thin coat of good old3 in 1  is probably all you need I am still drawn to the expensive. Current favourite is SCHMEIRFIX grease. Super sticky and stays where it's put. You need such a small amount. Chokes are removed every two weeks and even then there seems no need!

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11 hours ago, tx4cabbie said:

I'm going clay busting in the morning (For the first time in MONTHS), in 6 hrs time, so i checked my gun as an afterthought, about 12.30am, and the chokes had rusted to the barrels. I just spent nearly an hr with a pair of Swan necks /5 holes/plumbers pliers, and the barrels in my vice protected by a pair of work gloves, with the choke squealing like a slaughtered pig with every torturous turn. It's not REALLY bad rust, I reckon the choke is still viable, and the barrels are OK, on inspection in the light, but I feel like a prize plum.

Check your chokes. Now. Check 'em and oil 'em and don't make a twit of yourself like me.

We all make mistakes. Lesson learned. 
I once bought an old Winchester pump with a seized choke! More fool me for not looking.
Local blacksmith heated up the barrel and we managed to get it loose eventually. Winchoke was scrap afterwards though! 🙂

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1 hour ago, Scully said:

We all make mistakes. Lesson learned. 
I once bought an old Winchester pump with a seized choke! More fool me for not looking.
Local blacksmith heated up the barrel and we managed to get it loose eventually. Winchoke was scrap afterwards though! 🙂

I always use Copper Slip on all my chokes. It's meant for brakes, but works well on chokes. Available in a tube from Halfords etc.

 

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I never check my chokes anymore, I use a ceramic paste grease. Clean the chokes and inside the barrels with solvent, I then smear the grease inside the barrel coating the wall and threads. Then I coat the outside of the choke the same, when fitted I used to check them every week could go for months before feeling the need to pull them out and clean. Now I leave untill I've shot at least three thousand carts then I take them out and clean them. 

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1 hour ago, steve_b_wales said:

I always use Copper Slip on all my chokes. It's meant for brakes, but works well on chokes. Available in a tube from Halfords etc.

 

👍I use Hoppes No 9, and have done ever since my handgun days. It’s the smell primarily, it just smells of old gun cases and vintage firearms. 🙂

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1 hour ago, steve_b_wales said:

I always use Copper Slip on all my chokes. It's meant for brakes, but works well on chokes. Available in a tube from Halfords etc.

 

Me too and I’ve been waiting for someone to say that you should never use it. Works a treat and I’m forever tightening my chokes up.

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3 hours ago, steve_b_wales said:

I always use Copper Slip on all my chokes. It's meant for brakes, but works well on chokes. Available in a tube from Halfords etc.

 

excactly :good:thats what it is for............if you cant get the choke out using another cartridge...then you are not looking after the gun properly

2 hours ago, Scully said:

👍I use Hoppes No 9, and have done ever since my handgun days. It’s the smell primarily, it just smells of old gun cases and vintage firearms. 🙂

christ that smell brings back memories....of my old luger and 1911  et al ..........all a distant memory now.........i could mainline Hoppes #9........

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Just an aside. I have read on a USA forum that a mixture of 75% ATF. "automatic transmission fluid" To 25% paraffin or turps makes  perhaps the best goo for freeing locked nuts and works on chokes. Couple of days soak will free the most stuck choles. Just stand muzzles in a few inches of the fluid.

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