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I have thinwall chokes in one of my guns. They are a very thin choke, but have worked as intended. I think they work best in application where a regular thickness choke won't.
I'd have no reservation on using them in my hunting guns.

I've shot Briley thin-wall chokes since the early or mid 90s. Ducks, geese, turkeys, pheasants, quail, and more. Lead, steel, bismuth, it all works great. They have worked exactly as advertised and show no signs of doing anything else.

My Mk 38 came from England where Teague installed their extended chokes in the fixed choke barrels. I can take a 90 deg bent pick in the barrels & it is difficult to tell where chokes and bores meet. Great patterns from all constrictions. 55000 rounds.

Fragile .......... maybe, if you're the kind of person that can tear up an anvil in a sandbed. I own somewhere around 30 choke tubes ......... CompNChokes, Kicks High Flyers, factory tubes, Briley S1 thin walls, etc., and numerous guns that use them. I've never damaged a choke tube, or even come close. When they're not in a barrel they are in a protective box. Fragile? I think not. Nice wine glasses are fragile. Thin wall chokes an abomination? Coming from one who thinks he can unlock the mysteries of the cosmos, that's really a hoot.

Dickinson 28ga

Clearly, you have not bothered to observe the habits of some shooters. They have far less concern for their guns than do I and apparently you.

Five of the six Perazzis here have factory tubes, not counting the extra barrel sets, along with the old wide body 682. I have no aversion to screw-in chokes. People are perfectly free to mutilate their guns in any way that they might choose. Expectations of others being in love with it may not be realised.

JMO of course. YMMV

Guns sitting for sale with somebody’s aftermarket screw chokes are a hard pass for me. I have a gun that I had Stan Baker installed his chokes in, and the results were better than good, but, without an afternoon of shooting someone else’s attempt at same, I’m really not interested.

The most common trouble I have seen with choke tubes is people who install them and run them for ages without bothering to remove them. Then, when they try, the damn things are stuck. This problem is magnified by the use of steel shot, which peens the threads on the tube into the threads of the barrels.

Most of my choke tubes are sitting, safely, in a drawer in the gun toolbox. They have been there for years, sitting. Some have never been installed in a gun. They just sit there, waiting.

Best,
Ted

I have a SKB SxS someone had Briley's thinwall installed in and they are fine, other than the cylinder choke tube, which is so thin that when I was taking it out, the metal flexed enough that the wrench slides inside and won't stay engaged in the slots.

You can not safe proof the world from some morons. You recognize them as the ones who reach for a set of vise-grips instead of a wrench or socket to take a stubborn nut off a bolt. Works OK the first time but chews everything up for the rest of the world for the next time. Next time the bring a larger set of vise-grips and bugger it up more. For those people, no set of tubes are built well enough to survive stupid on two feet. I have lost count on the number of tubed guns, tubed tube set and other choke devices I have on hand. They fill two large boxes of drawers to keep them straight. And I learned 40 years ago how to keep them in a gun and not have them lock up in a barrel. I own a set of vise grips, somewhere in my tool box but have not needed them in a very long time.

At least once a year, remove the tubes, clean them as well as the threads, male and female, by wiping them off with a soft rag. Lightly lubricate with gun oil and re-insert. Gil