Ian84 Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 i was out clayin on sunday,last clay dusted it,then noticed i had blown the choke out no dull report or anything,gun is only three weeks old shot 150 through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J@mes Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 check your choke was tight before shooting that day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 always make sure your choke is tight, well a bit late now but hey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeh Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) Haha - I love how the first two posters are surpised sounding Escort-lovers!. Chuck the gun before the barrel falls off! Edited August 18, 2009 by Bleeh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J@mes Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) Haha - I love how the first two posters are surpised sounding Escort-lovers!. Chuck the gun before the barrel falls off! boring. *awaits al4x to come along with a witty retort* Edited August 18, 2009 by J@mes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 had mine 3 years ,had no problems with it .I remember reading on here a few months ago that this had happened to somebody else ,maybe time to chop it in and get something better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) Yet another marmite gun choke blown up . I had never known about these guns untill i joind this forum . I originally thought them to be a good value for money gun ,now I am not so sure . It seems obvious to me that they suffer from very poor quality control . The screw cutting of the barrels and the chokes is a precision engineering job and I dont think the makers have the skill for either . I wouldnt touch one for half the money they cost . Its obvious that gas is getting behind the chokes via the threads . It would seem that nobody has been hurt by these guns yet . I tell you what I wouldnt want to be sitting next to anybody using one . Harnser . Edited August 18, 2009 by Harnser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 not the first time http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/ind...showtopic=69156 oh and Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 I have an Escort shotgun. No problems with it. Chokes fit perfect. Ejects all size cartridges. Always a problem when someone who has 'expert knowledge' slags them off. No one makes you buy one. True, they are cheap (ish) but good for the money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveB916 Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Yet another marmite gun choke blown up . I had never known about these guns untill i joind this forum . I originally thought them to be a good value for money gun ,now I am not so sure . It seems obvious to me that they suffer from very poor quality control . The screw cutting of the barrels and the chokes is a precision engineering job and I dont think the makers have the skill for either . I wouldnt touch one for half the money they cost . Its obvious that gas is getting behind the chokes via the threads . It would seem that nobody has been hurt by these guns yet . I tell you what I wouldnt want to be sitting next to anybody using one . Harnser . How strange both my Brettas need the chokes nipping after firing 50 carts or so, more bloody rubbish guns I suppose....maybe its that most escorts are owned by new shotgunners unaware of such things ? Give it a rest wil you, how many people have to regularly check and nip chokes when frinig, be honest ? Dave B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniel Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Excellent we are back on the escort thread again... I clean mine every time i use it and to be honest i dont have any probs with it what so ever. I have the 3" chambers and not the 3.5" chambers i use it for pigeon and wildfowling ....cheap and cheerful and i dont mind if i knock it.. Maybe the choke was loose but i have not noticed the choke coming lose on mine, it is always still tight in the barrel at the end of the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoughton Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 What will be interesting here is how well he gets looks after by his RFD/Edgar Bros considering the age of the gun. All of the other stuff just knocking escorts is getting boring now, IMHO. Let's not make this poor guy feel any worse eh? Just a thought. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Sarakun Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 All of the other stuff just knocking escorts is getting boring now.Steve I agree. The plastic fantastic Datsun is probably the best gun ever built. Maybe it shouldn't come in a box for the purchaser to self assemble as it would appear that most buyers of this classic piece of equipment would find Lego a challenge. Well, I'm off out shortly to get some Pigeons for dinner tomorrow, as soon as my 11 year old has completed the complete strip down and annual cleaning of that engineering marvel, my superb Datsun Escort. DATSUNS FOR EVER!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 How strange both my Brettas need the chokes nipping after firing 50 carts or so, more bloody rubbish guns I suppose....maybe its that most escorts are owned by new shotgunners unaware of such things ? Give it a rest wil you, how many people have to regularly check and nip chokes when frinig, be honest ? Dave B Dont you think it strange that there has been more posts about the un reliability of this gun than any other make of shotgun . I have never heard of any other gun that has blown the choke off the end of the barrel , but more than one member of this forum has had this happen there has to be an inherent fault . I am not slagging the escort off ,but would never want to own one because of all the bad press the gun has had from this forums members . May be forum members are wrong and there is nothing wrong with the escort and they dont know how to shoot it or care for it . 150 cartridges fired and it blew the choke off , give me a break . I just wonder how many of these guns are failed at the proof house ?. Harnser . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoCars Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 my bet is the choke wasn't tight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveB916 Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Dont you think it strange that there has been more posts about the un reliability of this gun than any other make of shotgun . I have never heard of any other gun that has blown the choke off the end of the barrel , but more than one member of this forum has had this happen there has to be an inherent fault . I am not slagging the escort off ,but would never want to own one because of all the bad press the gun has had from this forums members . May be forum members are wrong and there is nothing wrong with the escort and they dont know how to shoot it or care for it . 150 cartridges fired and it blew the choke off , give me a break . I just wonder how many of these guns are failed at the proof house ?. Harnser . Again I ask have you never had to nip up the choke/chokes when shooting, and if you were not aware of such, what would you assume the outcome to be, regardless of make of gun ? In fact why not tomoorow unscrew the choke on your gun a good few turns, and then fire say 10 carts through it, please post resulting pics. No one is asking you to buy one, although I actually have one for sale, but please stop all this slagging of them, any gun treated incorrectly is liable to damage etc ? This is not personal, I just think its all uneccessary. And on many occasions downright snobbery. Dave B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattw Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 And on many occasions downright snobbery. Dave B No one is ever going to say... " i just spent £1500, when I could have brought something better for £350" are they... . I would bet the choke wasnt tight, or could have been over tightened, crushing it slightly in the barrel and forming a lip? I would none the less try to take it back for a new barrel. See what the gun shop says. Good luck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Von Tirpitz Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Not had any problems with my Escorts chokes, but after a heavy day of firing a number of rounds and heavy rounds, the stock does come loose and needs dismantling and screwing up tight ( always get father to sort it, to hear him moaning about how rubbish the gun is, is still better than doing it myself), so agree quality is not great, but then again, for any navy lovers, HMS Rodney nearly blew herself to pieces(including all her toilets/urinals, baths) after the action with Bismarck purely by her own gun fire, in the Denmark Straits 1941 and she was probably the best the british had, so even the almighty is venerable, not just the good ol Escort... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian84 Posted August 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 well i am sorry to say that some of you are very quick to say that i have no or little knoledge about guns i have been shooting for ten years i allways check any multi choke before i go out. and as for checkin while your shooting get real. but i do think that theres is an inherent prob with the chokes wheather it be the barrle has been wrongly machined or it is the fault of the choke ? but when i get a new barrle warrnty or not im chopin it in i do not believe its safe. thanx for all your comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 dave b , My post on this matter is not personal either . I have never owned an escort or shot one or even seen one . So my observations about this gun comes from the posts of the members of this site . Because of the reliabilty problems of this gun and the very serious issue of this gun blowing up chokes Ithink that owners should be aware of these facts .I still say that there is an inherent fault in these guns down to the screw cutting of the barrels and the choke tubes . I am not scare mongering but owners should make sure that the chokes are tight . All though I dont think that this is the problem . Incidently I just checked the choke tube on my berreta self loader and it is as tight as when I screwed it back in after a clean about 500 shots ago . Harnser . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codling99 Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 i used an escort for a few years,only prob i had was ejecting small carts,sold it and bought a second hand berreta extreema 2,as new condition few months old,and that fails to eject carts on time s too,not fussy which ones though,just sticks now and then.just luck of the draw i think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 well i am sorry to say that some of you are very quick to say that i have no or little knoledge about guns i have been shooting for ten years i allways check any multi choke before i go out.and as for checkin while your shooting get real. but i do think that theres is an inherent prob with the chokes wheather it be the barrle has been wrongly machined or it is the fault of the choke ? but when i get a new barrle warrnty or not im chopin it in i do not believe its safe. thanx for all your comments. A sensible course of action . I hope you get the gun repaired quickly on warrenty . Best of luck . Harnser . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveB916 Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 and as for checkin while your shooting get real. I rest my case Your Honour.... Dave B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmaxphil Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 makes you wonder how it got though proof !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveB916 Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Probably with the chokes tightened correctly ? Dave B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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