carlson choke barrel work

baltz526 · 01-27-2007, 08:12 PM

just read carlson will install choke tubes in a single fixed choke barrel, for $85.00 plus $15 s/h. includes 3 tubes of your choice and wrench. next week i'm going to send in my 870 30" wingmaster barrel. the barrel has to have an outside measurement of .825" for lead/steel chokes. .805" for lead only. just look up carlson choke on google

billc_sbio · 01-27-2007, 09:12 PM

I switched to Carlson "Steel Shot" Extended Choke Tubes the middle of this season.

I'm VERY Pleased with their performance!

baltz526 · 01-27-2007, 09:23 PM

i think the new ones with the barrel work are the flush ones. but it will give me the option to buy extended in the future. i have been limited to #2 steel in my wingmaster due to the .685 full fixed choke

gottafish · 01-28-2007, 03:50 AM

You guys crack me up I put shell in my gun and kill birds dead with the factory stuff . ya'll get all fancy and what not. LOL

baltz526 · 01-28-2007, 06:25 AM

better quit picking on us

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billc_sbio · 01-28-2007, 08:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gottafish

You guys crack me up I put shell in my gun and kill birds dead with the factory stuff . ya'll get all fancy and what not. LOL

Yeah, I did the same...

It's just now I kill 'em even BETTER! :grin:

nunyet · 01-28-2007, 05:47 PM

I took my old 870 that was choked 40 thousand very full ,and had briley take it out to 25 thousands, improved mod. perfect for all around. Not much money,no worry about choke tubes.

nunyet

lor · 01-28-2007, 05:51 PM

I also use the standard off the shell choke tubes and they kill birds.
I'm curious, what makes the carlson tube so special?????

gottafish · 01-28-2007, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baltz526

better quit picking on us

p

LanceinOregon · 01-28-2007, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gottafish

You guys crack me up I put shell in my gun and kill birds dead with the factory stuff . ya'll get all fancy and what not. LOL

One our local clay shooters today got to try out his fancy new expensive Beretta 391 Teknys Sporting Clays for the first time.

Alas, though, he was quite upset when he shot worse with it than his previous plain jane shotgun!!

You should spend more money on your shotgun. Don't you think it would appreciate the attention, and shoot better for you??

Lance

k9jeff · 01-29-2007, 01:30 AM

I think the point here is, the man is passing along that for a pretty fair price, you can take your old fixed gun and have it modified to a screw in system. $85 bucks is not that bad.
I have carlson tubes too and they work great.

I will check the website. Thanks baltz

billc_sbio · 01-29-2007, 07:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lor

I also use the standard off the shell choke tubes and they kill birds.
I'm curious, what makes the carlson tube so special?????

I can't verify that the Carlson brand of Extended Choke Tubes is necessarily "better" than many other, similar, Extended Choke Tubes.

However they're similar (except not ported) to other tubes costing $60-$90.

The Carlson's cost ~$30.

The part of these Tubes that's "different" is their length and angle of choke and where the maximum constriction exists in the Tube.

At the beginning of the season I patterned several of my Remchoke Tubes using the shells I would be using during the season and wasn't impressed by what I saw. In many of my patterns there were Mallard sized holes IN various areas of the pattern.

Several shooters I knew advised trying out various Extended Choke Tubes as they had, and thought they'd noted improved shooting.

I picked up a pair of Carlson's and immediately thought I could note an improvement in my harvest percentages.

I haven't taken my loads and Tubes back out to the Pattern Board (was busy hunting most of my days off) yet, but that Extended Choke Tube is still in my barrel and I was very happy with it from the time I first used it.

Sorry to present a shooting "impression" rather than hard data, but that's all I've got so far.

Of course I'm referring to the difference between my gun's RemChoke Tubes and the Carlson Tubes. Your gun's factory tubes might be better than my factory tubes.

LanceinOregon · 01-29-2007, 06:01 PM

I bought a stainless Carlson extended choke for my home protection shotgun ( see photo ). I patterned it, and also shot a round of Sporting Clays with it. It performed very well. Although I got quite a few double-take looks at the range when people saw what I was shooting.

I have a whole bunch of more expensive Briley chokes for my other guns. I could not tell any difference in the performance of this Carlson choke, compared to my Briley's.

Lance

Hawk · 02-05-2009, 09:56 PM

Could someone post or PM me a link to Carlson? I'm interested in having my A-5 threaded for a removeable choke.

CombinationLicense · 02-06-2009, 09:48 AM

I can't vouch for the Carlson chokes since I don't have any - However, I have never heard anything bad about them. The Carlson web page says $125 for single barrel installation and three chokes but maybe they have a special going on or something.

I have some experience with Briley's choke installation and it works well. Their pricing varies depending on your shotgun but for most pumps it's $179 including 3 chokes - $30 more if you want to shoot steel or tungsten ($209).

FWIW - I use Trulock chokes for most of my "off the shelf" aftermarket applications and have had no complaints.

"CL"