Co-Worker got a Choke Tube stuck in the CHAMBER of a Mossberg 500

clandestine · Mar 15, 2016

One of my co-workers told me that his brother has a Mossberg 500 with a screw in Choke. The Brother claims the Choke Tube "fell" into the chamber and when someone pumped the gun, it jammed the thing in the chamber HARD.

They tried to pry it out and use picks. No success.

They gave the barrel to me today to see if I could get the choke out. Took about 3 mins.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO BURN YOURSELF
1) Plugged the front of the chamber with a cleaning patch
2) Melted some Cerrosafe in a ladel with a torch
3) Poured the melted Cerrosafe into the breach
4) Let the Cerrosafe cool for 5 mins and harden
5) Insert 1/2" range rod in the muzzle and gave the hardened Cerrosafe a hard tap.
6) Out came the Choke Tube
7) Put the Cerrosafe and Choke into the ladel and melt the Cerrosafe again
8) Pull the Choke out of the melted Cerrosafe with some pliers
9) Set Aside Cerrosafe for future reuse

bigjohn · Mar 15, 2016

thats a new one!

rdc · Mar 15, 2016

Good thinkin'

DaemonAssassin · Mar 15, 2016

*facepalm*

At least you got it out for them.

BradMacc82 · Mar 15, 2016

Still not as bad as my brother removing the bluing off a late 50's era MKI Ruger, with a dremel and a 320grit sanding drum.

(He won't live that down anytime soon.)

stimpy17 · Mar 15, 2016

I might have tried banging him over the head with it. Might not have loosen it but I would have felt better.

Z_Man · Mar 15, 2016

thank you for introducing us to a product and method to safely and effectively deal with this kind of problem. appreciate the useful information.

Uncle Duke · Mar 15, 2016

Now Gun Doc, just how in the hell does somebody wind up with a choke tube in the chamber, AND then proceed to rack a slide on it? Gotta be like the hospital stories you hear. He's got WHAT? Stuck WHERE? Jesus, I can't stop laughing! :lol2:

Never mind. Forget I asked. Your fix was a stroke of creative genius. And some questions are probably better left unasked, and forever unresolved.

Mr. Ed · Mar 15, 2016

Uncle Duke said:
Now Gun Doc, just how in the hell does somebody wind up with a choke tube in the chamber, AND then proceed to rack a slide on it? Gotta be like the hospital stories you hear. He's got WHAT? Stuck WHERE? Jesus, I can't stop laughing!

Inserted it from the wrong end maybe? :sad20:

Biggfoot44 · Mar 16, 2016

Someone not knowledgeable. They're told somthing to the effect " that cylindrical thingie is supposed to go in the end of the bbl" . WHICH end got lost in the translation.

teratos · Mar 16, 2016

"It fell in there"

Similar to the stories of people who come into the ER with a racquetball up their ass. Usually they say something like "I fell on it". Sure you did......

Jim12 · Mar 16, 2016

Somebody told him that based on its name, it must be a special "choke round" to use to discretely choke somebody instead of shooting them.

I think it started with an MGA Delegate who came up with that.

He has submitted a proposed bill to ban "choke rounds."

namelessname120 · Mar 16, 2016

The MacGyver of guns

Ranchero50 · Mar 16, 2016

Ditto, pretty clever.

JohnnyE · Mar 16, 2016

teratos said:
"It fell in there"

Similar to the stories of people who come into the ER with a racquetball up their ass. Usually they say something like "I fell on it". Sure you did......

Gee Doc, I didn't look and plopped down on the chair and, oops...

S&W19 · Mar 16, 2016

teratos said:
"It fell in there"

Similar to the stories of people who come into the ER with a racquetball up their ass. Usually they say something like "I fell on it". Sure you did......

Exactly what I thought. Someone with limited knowledge "tried something."

John from MD · Mar 17, 2016

When I was a kid, Brownells used to pack newsletters in with their customers orders. They included little tidbits of info called "Gunsmith Kinks." One of these was using Cerrrosafe to remove ruptured shell cases from surplus rifles. ( this used to happen pretty often due to excessive headspace on some old relics.

That's one of the few things I can remember these days. :lol:

John

byf43 · Mar 18, 2016

Great job.

Without the Cerrosafe, (no, I don't have any), "I" would have tried a 10 ga or larger bronze brush and tried to push it out.

Probably wouldn't have worked, but, that's all I got.

StantonCree · Mar 18, 2016

I never even heard of that stuff or even would have thought of that. I guess that's why people like me bring things to people like you. Very cool.

StickShaker · Mar 19, 2016

Clever thinking on the removal. Choking it down to a smaller shell. :innocent0

Co-Worker got a Choke Tube stuck in the CHAMBER of a Mossberg 500

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