Extended Choke Tube save my shotgun

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The spring skeet league started this last week at the range I belong to. Shooters were slow to arrive so there were only two of us shooting our 50 targets. It was tough to juggle the score clipboard, the trap release, and our shotguns.

My shotgun got away from me and the muzzle hit the ground. Fortunately, I use extended choke tubes and one got damaged. The barrel itself was untouched. :) A quick changer to another choke tube and I was back in business.

This is the first oops I've had in 30 years of shooting competitive clays but frustrating still the same. I'm glad the choke tube protected my shotgun barrel.

Any other confessions out there?
 
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I once lost a Taurus 85 from my pocket climbing into a deer stand. Shattered the grips and dinged the crap out of the grip frame. Ordered a set of wraparound grips and forgot about that day altogether.

shotgun specific, I once grabbed my gun and instinctively shot at a groundhog with a slug at about 100 yards. Missed low. BUT I missed low enough that I hit the can of tomato soup sitting on a rock that we were trying to hit with revolvers. Never mentioned that groundhog to the other guys.
 
I fell of a deer I was sledding down a very steep slippery hill. Got to much speed and fell on my back with my rifle slung over my back. The ground was frozen and there were 2 deep lines gouged into the hill, I was worried I messed up my newly built rifle. Luckily those swfa scopes are like tanks and so are the b&c stocks, I rubbed the frozen dirt off and only my windage turret moved a few mils.

As for shotguns, had a brand new Verona 12ga, about to load up and leened it on my tailgate. I opened the door to reach for my shells and it fell. Broke the bead off and put a small dent in the barrel, had more beads at home and made a tool to get the dent out.
 
went down and put a decent gouge in my Ridglines barrel week before last, but that's an easy fix. Another time I fell with my mini across my back over my back pack and was hitting the lava before I knew I went down, crushed the tube on the scope and put a deep enough ding in the stainless receiver that I hand to file the edges before I could almost hide it with polishing and blasting.

had more than one rifle slide and fall, the worst damage being to my scope caps and bells, guns got some dents but nothing horrible.


Haven't dropped any of my shotguns.....yet....it'll happen.
 
One time I put my shotgun in my case, but the case was hanging half way off the table and I didnt notice. The gun fell and hit a piece of wood conecting the seat and table to each other. The case saved from scratches but that gave me a heart attack, being its a $2k gun.
 
cfullgraf said:
The spring skeet league started this last week at the range I belong to. Shooters were slow to arrive so there were only two of us were shooting our 50 targets. It was tough to juggle the score clipboard, the trap release, and our shotguns.

My shotgun got away from me and the muzzle hit the ground. Fortunately, I use extended choke tubes and one got damaged. The barrel itself was untouched. :) A quick changer to another choke tube and I was back in business.

This is the first oops I've had in 30 years of shooting competitive clays but frustrating still the same. I'm glad the choke tube protected my shotgun barrel.

Any other confessions out there?
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A good reason for clubs to provide a few gun racks at the skeet fields
 
Maybe I am over doing it. Every shotgun I own that has screw in chokes has the extended chokes for that reason and also to make it easier to remove or check tightness. So far I haven't found a downside except the expense of the extra chokes. I am glad yours worked out for you.
 
Milkmaster said:
Maybe I am over doing it. Every shotgun I own that has screw in chokes has the extended chokes for that reason and also to make it easier to remove or check tightness. So far I haven't found a downside except the expense of the extra chokes. I am glad yours worked out for you.
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My competition skeet gun from the 1990's has flush chokes but every shotgun I've purchased since has extended chokes. I had not thought that they would also provide some protection for barrel until now.
 
No mishaps with my shot guns. My father did though. He fell in the snow. And he split the barrel shooting at a rabbit. He thinks he got snow in the barrel.
I did have some pistols on a rack in my gun safe. They fell and nicked up some of my wood stocks.
 
I’m like Milkmaster, my shotguns all have extended chokes. They are a mixture of Carlson’s and Trulock.

The main reason I have them is to protect the barrel crown, second is for the ease of knowing which choke is in the shotgun.
 
If your a bull in a china shop like me, there is no substitute for extended chokes, Just one less thing to worry about.
Other than taking a leak next to the truck and the dog getting up a flock of pheasants about 10 feet away (Could have been a really bad accident) nothing I can think of.
 
cdb1 said:
...second is for the ease of knowing which choke is in the shotgun.
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This is handy as well but I pretty much only shoot skeet so I rarely change the chokes in my shot guns. I do have a selection just in case.

With the Browning flush chokes, I could never remember what the number of notches in the end of the choke meant.
 
Before LM became real popular, Mod was the defacto choke for best all around for sporting and hunting. Like Digweed, I like a LM and IM in my O/U when shooting tougher targets like you see on a FITASC parcour.
 
I was 21 years in 1969 and was sighting in my Remington Model 31, 20 gauge pump shotgun for shotgun only deer hunting. I was shooting Win slugs at a target behind the house. One slug exited the barrel, but I could see come out of the barrel and only go a short ways. So I figured I was good and kept shooting. When I got inside to clean the barrel, there was a bulge just in front of where the barrel tightens onto the magazine. Must have been a part of a fiber wad in the barrel.
Then in the mid 1970's I did a lot of duck and goose hunting. I left my gun case in the boat while hunting, After I got done I slid my 870 12 gauge into the case. I left it there for a day or 2, and when I took it out there was some spots on the end of the barrel. What happened was a mouse got into my gun case and I killed him when I inserted my shotgun. Rodent guts and blued steel don't mix.
I bought a used Rem model 1100 12 gauge in the early 90's that had a fixed 28 inch modified choke. After several years( probably 10 to 12) I bought a replacement barrel with Rem Chokes. I think it was the second year after I bought it I was hunting pheasants in South Dakota. I was on a dirt road and shot a bird. There was private land on both sides, so the rules state to leave your shotgun, and retrieve your bird. I leaned my shotgun barrel on a large rock with 1 glove under the barrel. when I got to where the bird was my dog flushed the cripple, and me with no shotgun in hand. When I went back to get my shotgun ( no shells in the chamber, which was part of my up bringing ) my dog got there first and hit the shotgun stock and I now have several scratched in my blued barrel.
One not shotgun related story involved a Remington 30-06 semi auto rifle my cousin was hunting with. We were in Wisconsin hunting deer above the shotgun only line, It was cold and snowy and my cousin and I got back to my Blazer about the same time. He said he had trouble getting the shell out of the rifle. Just then 2 wardens were on both sides of the Blazer and asked for our licenses and to look at our rifles. I was shooting a bolt action then, so I thought there was no problem. One warden checked my rifle and the other warden checked mu cousin's semi auto. After they left my cousin said he was lucky they didn't see the cartridge in the chamber. We got out, opened the action, and out came the shell. That was a BIG NO NO , and we lucked out.
 
The barrel of my Ljutic popped off, flipped and hit the ground twice when I was shooting and once when a friend was. The first time it happened, I was shooting it, and just the rim of the muzzle touched the 16 yard block. I touched it up with a file, and kept shooting. Went home a put a spot of cold blue on it. When it happened to my friend, I told him to check the forend before every shot. He shot a 24 with it. I found out later I wasn't pushing the forend on tight enough, (at that price, I baby it) but I haven't had a problem with it since I have been putting it on firm and trying to pull it off. (like an AR mag)
 
edwardware said:
It had never occurred to me to ride the deer like a sled. Thanks for the tip!
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I saw a dip stick non resident hunter ride a deceased raghorn bull down nearly vertical snow covered slope in Wyoming's Grand Teton park. He sat on the bull and used the antlers like handlebars, his buddy gave the daring duo a pushoff off the ridge, and man what a ride...for a hundred yards or so. He hit a tree partway down and ended up getting stuck in the stomach with a couple of antler tines. Stupid should hurt.
 
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