Good New Year to Everyone,
As the title states this post will be on Shotgun Choke Safety. Over the Christmas holidays we had a little issue arise with chokes before we went out shooting our shotguns.
An associate of mine has a Mossberg Maverick 88 he bought used from his local shop. I was getting ready for the next day and asked what choke he had in case we needed to change it to adapt to our shooting conditions, he is new to the shotgun world and didn't know the choke type. With that being said, I looked at the tip of the barrel and notice it was a fairly tight choke, almost like a turkey choke. He also said that he has shot slugs and standard lead shot out of it.
So I grab my choke wrench and pull out the choke, the bottom of the choke it eroded away and the thread's in the barrel are gone near the eroded choke area. This is most likely contributed to the slug being fired through a 680 Turkey choke, then repeated round of shot being fired. So I also have a Maverick 88 which I have dedicated as a turkey gun, Scope,choke, ETC. So I pull the barrel off of that to stick on his with a modified choke so we can do some shooting.
This is the choke I pulled put of his barrel, don't have any pictures of the barrel threads.
This could have ended worse, many different outcomes could have arisen. Slug stuck in barrel and barrel blows out or blows end of barrel apart. All outcomes are dangerous to your self and others around you. Always wear
Eye and Ear Protection.
Get to know your firearm and how it works, operation, cleaning, inspections, chokes, ETC.
Thanks for reading this little post about safety,
Rex
