Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below
What is a "choke" on a shotgun???
- Thread starter -SD-
- Start date
GodOfThunder
New member
The choke is what you put in the magazine to reduce the number of rounds the gun can hold. You have to have one for duck hunting.
chewyxrage
New member
otherwise known as plug
S
Spartacus
Guest
in the paper today(alabama) the headline read something along the lines of choking on a shotgun
didn't read it(the paper)
I'm sure shotgun and choking were in the headline
something too about being impaled
didn't read it(the paper)
I'm sure shotgun and choking were in the headline
something too about being impaled
T
The Shadow
Guest
well.....
A choke is also used to control the dispersal pattern
A choke is also used to control the dispersal pattern
GEEK2FREAK
New member
The Shadow said:
ding ding ding, has nothign to do with the magazine.
it is the screw in thing at the end of a barrel that controls the pattern at which ammunition is dispersed.
SHADOW IS A DAMN GENUS!
GodOfThunder
New member
Hey man Shadow is so right... I am too high to be answering questions my bad orb
baron76
New member
It doesn't have to screw on, some barrels are made with a certain choke, basically restricting the last inch or so of the barrel, it should tell you on the barrel, most bird guns are full or modified, most 18" defense etc are no choke. Look at your barrel, its a fixed something.
HumorMe
New member
superdave said:
Modern shotguns have barrells that are threaded on the inside of the end of the barrell where the shot exits.
Chokes are tubes that screw into those threads so that the tube is located inside of the end of the barrell. The tubes are usually about 2-3 inches in length. This gives the gun a multi-purpose gun for hunting different animals.
Old shotguns do not have these tubes. Hence, they would buy different barrells for hunting different animals.
Determining the choke of an old shotgun, you would have to look on the barrell and maybe even take the barrell off to locate the choke if it is listed at all which it should be. Somewhere on that barrell should be something stamped on it stating what the choke is.
If it is not stamped on there or engraved on there, I don't know of any other way to determine the choke of the barrell.
For an older gun look right in front of the reciever just where the barrel starts...it will say something like Full 2 3/4 or 3", or Mod 2 3/4 only ....Just look in the area where it will tell you what shells you can shoot in it. It will be written right by that or on the exact oppostite side of the barrel.
" A choke is the thing that limits the number of shells you can put in it."
Fucking idiot, don't know shit about guns...damn!!
" A choke is the thing that limits the number of shells you can put in it."
Fucking idiot, don't know shit about guns...damn!!
Damn Im not thinking, here it is:dossey said:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?item=30384533
Colonel Ingus
New member
As was mentioned earlier, the choke is the restriction in bore diameter at the muzzle which helps control the rate at which the pellets spread out after leaving the barrel.
Choke typically referrs to the percentage of a shotgun's pattern that will stay within a 30 inch circle at a distance of 40 yard.
Full = >70%
Modified = 60-70%
Improved Cylinder = 55-60%
Cylinder Bore = <55% (there is no restriction in cylinder bores)
Unlike most people think, a shotgun barrel is not a simple tube from chamber to muzzle. A typical 12 gauge has a bore of .729 inches. The chamber area is larger than that and within an inch or two of the chamber there is a section called the "forcing cone". A typical forcing cone is a constriction in the inside diameter of the barrel from the chamber diameter to roughly .729 inches. This constriction takes place over about ½ inch in distance. When you look through a shotgun barrel from breech to muzzle, it looks like a step down, but it is not, it is a short taper. One of the first things done to improve shotgun patterning is to "lengthen" the forcing cone so that this restriction takes place over about 1½ to 2 inches. This modification will reduce pellet deformation, which improves the pattern density, and will also reduce felt recoil slightly. The last few inches of the barrel, as you approach the muzzle, is where the "choke" is. A simple restriction at the muzzle, which brings the bore diameter down to anywhere from a couple thousandths of an inch under the nominal .729", to restrictions of 40 thousandths or more under the .729" bore diameter which are used for "full" choke are possible. It's been proven that having a short parallel section of barrel AFTER the choke will help increase pattern density as well, and that's why the target and competition shotguns with interchangable choke tubes use tubes that are 4 to 5 inches in length, while hunting shotguns still use the 2 to 3 inch tubes.
A quick check to determine if a 12 gauge is full choke or not is to drop a dime through the barrel. A dime is just under .705 inches in diameter (depending on wear) and will not pass through a full choke on a normal, non-backbored 12 gauge barrel. (back boreing is a whole different situation, but a lot of better shotguns are starting to use that technology now)
So there's probably more than you ever wanted to know about "choke".
Choke typically referrs to the percentage of a shotgun's pattern that will stay within a 30 inch circle at a distance of 40 yard.
Full = >70%
Modified = 60-70%
Improved Cylinder = 55-60%
Cylinder Bore = <55% (there is no restriction in cylinder bores)
Unlike most people think, a shotgun barrel is not a simple tube from chamber to muzzle. A typical 12 gauge has a bore of .729 inches. The chamber area is larger than that and within an inch or two of the chamber there is a section called the "forcing cone". A typical forcing cone is a constriction in the inside diameter of the barrel from the chamber diameter to roughly .729 inches. This constriction takes place over about ½ inch in distance. When you look through a shotgun barrel from breech to muzzle, it looks like a step down, but it is not, it is a short taper. One of the first things done to improve shotgun patterning is to "lengthen" the forcing cone so that this restriction takes place over about 1½ to 2 inches. This modification will reduce pellet deformation, which improves the pattern density, and will also reduce felt recoil slightly. The last few inches of the barrel, as you approach the muzzle, is where the "choke" is. A simple restriction at the muzzle, which brings the bore diameter down to anywhere from a couple thousandths of an inch under the nominal .729", to restrictions of 40 thousandths or more under the .729" bore diameter which are used for "full" choke are possible. It's been proven that having a short parallel section of barrel AFTER the choke will help increase pattern density as well, and that's why the target and competition shotguns with interchangable choke tubes use tubes that are 4 to 5 inches in length, while hunting shotguns still use the 2 to 3 inch tubes.
A quick check to determine if a 12 gauge is full choke or not is to drop a dime through the barrel. A dime is just under .705 inches in diameter (depending on wear) and will not pass through a full choke on a normal, non-backbored 12 gauge barrel. (back boreing is a whole different situation, but a lot of better shotguns are starting to use that technology now)
So there's probably more than you ever wanted to know about "choke".
Y_lifter
New member
"Plug" was the term some of you were referring to
It's what you put into the guns magazine to block it partially and restrict
the number of shells it can hold. My Grand dads old 16 Ga Belgian made browning has this Old hand made wooden one that I discovered was in there.. cool.
It's what you put into the guns magazine to block it partially and restrict
the number of shells it can hold. My Grand dads old 16 Ga Belgian made browning has this Old hand made wooden one that I discovered was in there.. cool.
