I hadn’t owned a fire arm in over 35 years.
Obama’s comment’s about a national police force sent chills down my spine.
Recently purchased a 12 ga pump.
BTW- the end of the barrel has a little part that can be unscrewed and removed from the inside of the barrel. It’s about 3 inches long.
Anyone know what or why or the purpose.
Sounds like an adjustable choke.
That should be the choke. That controls the spread of shot that comes out of the muzzle. The smaller (or tighter) the choke, the closer together the shot is coming out of the barrel.
It’s a choke. They come in several ‘flavors’.
Designed to determine how quickly the shot pattern spreads.
Should have a designation on it. IC (improved cylinder), modified, full, etc.
That’s a choke, for adjusting the pattern of the shot. For home defense, remove that choke - you want as wide as possible. Chokes will tighten the spread.
More info than you probably need about shotgun chokes.
If the gun is for home defense, you might wish to remove it, but at in-home ranges it won't make a realistic difference.
That’s something called a thread protector. It protects the threads inside the barrel.
The threads are there so you can fit devices known as “chokes” which alter the pattern and density of the shot cloud you’re firing.
it’s a choke to reduce spread.
"Its not the sound that's deadly, its all those high speed projectiles"That is the "choke". It controls the grouping of the pellets as they leave the muzzle. A tight choke keeps the pattern smaller for a longer distance. That's good for hunting flying birds and rabbits at a long distance. Removing the choke makes the pattern spread faster. Better for close engagement (home protection) or firing slugs (big game e.g. deer/elk/moose).
***Anyone know what or why or the purpose.***
Replacable choke.
People have mentioned to you it’s a choke or a thread protector. BUT PLEASE DON’T LOAD THE FIREARM UNTIL YOU GET THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL OR TRAINING. I study mine over and over until I know most every detail by heart.
choke
Grenade launcher?
The 3” piece is because some states can’t have a certain ammo capacity and that piece fills up space, thus “technically” reducing the capacity. Take it out and leave it out.
Tes, it is a choke, but don’t fire it without one in place. May destrot the threads. Get a “cylinder” bored choke for faster patter spread. A “full” will make the pattern tight for longer range. “Improved cylinder” is closer to “cylinder” and “modified” is closer to “full”.
Its the removable choke. You can most likely buy other inserts that will change the choke setting. There is cylinder bore, full choke and other settings for a shotgun bore. When you bought it, someone should have pointed out what choke it was set for:)
It will be a “choke.” Most chokes on most shotguns are not adjustable, they’re fixed. There are about a half-dozen standard choke sizes:
Name Constriction Pattern density[*]
Cylinder .000” 40%
Skeet .005” 53%
Improved Cylinder .010” 57%
Modified .020” 67%
Improved Modified .030 73%
Full choke .040” 75%
[*] Pattern density is measured by putting up a target that is a piece of paper with a 30” diameter circle on it at 40 yards. I like to use a couple pieces of butcher paper taped together, but shelf paper, blank newspaper, etc will all do well. You just need a big, clean sheet of paper on which you can draw a 30” target circle you can see easily.
You shoot a single round at the middle of this circle. Then start counting pellet holes.
As you see from the “pattern density” above, the job of chokes is to give you a more dense pattern at range. A “full choke” is something you might use on waterfowl at longer range, whereas a “cylinder” choke is something you might use when you’re skeet shooting close in to the house.
Most of my work with a shotgun on a farm and hunting upland game has been with an improved modified.
NB that if you’re going to use slugs out of a shotgun, you’d best double-check which choke you have in the gun - you want no constriction when you’re using slugs, so you want a cylinder choke.
NEVER shoot a shotgun without a choke in it. You’ll mess up the threads in the barrel and you’ll have to end up cutting off the end of the barrel and getting new threads machined in.
If you’ll ever use the non-lead shot, double check that your chokes are rated for the hardness of non-lead shots, like steel and tungsten.
You should remove the choke every so often and lube the threads of a choke occasionally with some oil or light grease to keep it from seizing in the bore.
Anyone know what or why or the purpose.
It's called a choke. It controls how much the shot spreads out as it leaves the barrel. The tighter (smaller) the choke tube, the farther the shot spreads before it begins to spread and lose velocity.
A more open choke (larger internal diameter) spreads faster, and would be used for closer in work. A tighter choke (smaller internal diameter) is used for shooting at targets farther away (think geese flying overhead). Having a removable choke allows the gun owner to adjust to changing shooting conditions without having to own multiple barrels.