Screw-in choke question

[F4E Phantom]

I have a Benelli M1 Super 90. I plan to shoot it in multi gun and shotgun only matches. I have only shot it 50 rds of birdshot. I noticed the screw-in choke was loose a few turns. can I apply medium/heavy strength loctile to the threads? I do not plan on changing out chokes Thanks

[Revoman]

I would not recommend Loc-Tite even if you don't plan on removing now, you might in the future. I'm not a proponent of Loc-Tite on any gun, anywhere. If it loosens, which most will, there should be a wrench that came with the gun to put a little more umph into it. If no wrench, most times the brass edge of a shotshell works well. Just insert it into the grooves on the choke and tighten her up.

[wjc]

I wouldn't. You may decide to change it out in the future.

Just give it a crank every once in a while...unloaded of course!

[alfred1222]

Mine loosen up every once in awhile, i would just check it and tighten it before every round and go from there. i wouldnt loc-tite it, but than again i wouldnt loc-tite anything on my guns

[mikey357]

Teflon tape, but just the last few threads. Downside, little messy when you take off the choke tube. The reason for just the last few threads is if I did all the threads it makes it hard to feel if you have cross threaded it.

[aippi]

Blue loc-tite will not hurt and will keep the choke in place. Just a very, very, very, very small drop is all you need. The choke will still come out when you are ready. However, even with that you should always check these choke tubes before a range session as they can loosen.

[ysr_racer]

NO !!!!

[mikey357]

I have a Benelli M1 Super 90. I plan to shoot it in multi gun and shotgun only matches. I have only shot it 50 rds of birdshot. I noticed the screw-in choke was loose a few turns. can I apply medium/heavy strength loctile to the threads? I do not plan on changing out chokes Thanks

I would not use the heavy duty one for sure. Just a little bit of the light one that is tool removable should work.

[ysr_racer]

Screw it in hand tight, check it every once in a while.

[FLIGHT762]

NO !!!!

DON'T use locktite

Screw it in hand tight, check it every once in a while.

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Put some antisieze compound on the threads. Tighten the choke with the tool before the match and snug it back down after the match. There are scores of threads on the hunting forums where hunters have left the chokes in for a long time and have an extremely hard time getting the choke out and occasionally damage the barrel trying to get it out.

While you say now that you don't want to take the choke out, someday you will.

[aippi]

Anyone who can't remove a choke tube that had a small drop of blue loc-tite on it needs to turn his "Man Card" in.

I use it on shell holder screws, stock bolts, sights screws and multiple other applications on weapons. It is non-permanent and made for these applications.

Bet those guys used the red or some tube of thread lock they bought at Wal-mart and figured more is better and coated all the threads on the tube and that is why they could not remove their tubes.

Any time you use this stuff you use a small drop, or as I recommend in my reply to the OP a very, very, very, very small drop. That is all it takes. Of course there is no way to assure guys who Bubba up a weapon will use this stuff correctly.

[Sicarius]

I use my m1 s90 for ipsc. It has the 18.5 inch barrel and what I did was buy an extended choke that has the gnarling on the outside. It sticks out 3/4 of an inch or so and I just check it every so often. It does loosten up a little every now and then. Another thing you can do is put some blue locktite on the threads and let it dry. Then screw it in. It will give a little resistance from loostening up.
Kevin

[runway1]

Anyone who can't remove a choke tube that had a small drop of blue loc-tite on it needs to turn his "Man Card" in.

I use it on shell holder screws, stock bolts, sights screws and multiple other applications on weapons. It is non-permanent and made for these applications.

Bet those guys used the red or some tube of thread lock they bought at Wal-mart and figured more is better and coated all the threads on the tube and that is why they could not remove their tubes.

Any time you use this stuff you use a small drop, or as I recommend in my reply to the OP a very, very, very, very small drop. That is all it takes. Of course there is no way to assure guys who Bubba up a weapon will use this stuff correctly.

OP, if you don't intend on removing the choke in the near future just go by aippi's post above. ONE DROP of the BLUE and you'll be just fine.

I've used loctite thread locking products on everything from hot rods to F-15s (no, I'm not exaggerating). It's just fine.

[mjsweims]

Be careful. If you use a very small amount of anything and don't remove the choke for a long time you may get rust and not be able to get it out. Use some grease or antiseize, and tighten it periodically.

[surfcitydude]

Believe it or not, a dab of gun grease on the threads will make it easy to hand tighten and should not come loose. My Browning came loose after a couple rounds of skeet, started using a little grease, no more loose chokes.