What happens when you fire a shotgun with the choke removed.?

Question

Does it damage the threads? How much wider will the spread be if it was a full choke?

Answer 1

Shot is contained in a plastic shot-cup wad in many common loads.

Firing the gun without the choke will result in heavy plastic fouling as the wad exits and grates on the threads. No long term damage - just nasty stuff to clean.

On the other hand, firing any load without a shot-cup (buckshot, slugs etc.) will tear up the threads and could make them un-useable.

A full choke makes the spread smaller, not wider. A full will usually give 85%+ shot density at 40 yards in a 30in circle.

Firing the gun without a choke would be akin to using a cylinder choke - no contstriction.

Answer 2

You get plastic in your threads is all. The pattern is like you have no choke. (open bore) The shot doesn't spread out any more than a barrel with no choke. No damage, no problems.
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Answer 3

it may mess up your threads. u should never fire the gun w/ its choke removed. There r several different chokes including improved, modified, improved/ modified, full, extra full. and super full to name the most commonly used ones. the spread would be tighter w/ a full choke than w/ no choke.

Answer 4

There's not usually damage if it's just a few rounds of lead birdshot. It might foul your threads, though. The spread should be about the same as a cylinder bore barrel of the same length, possibly a little wider, which is to say that it's not good for something very far away.

Answer 5

The choke threads will definitely suffer, and may be permanently damaged.

Answer 6

Pattern your shotgun with choke and then without the choke and see the difference in the shot pattern yourself.*

Answer 7

BOOM!