Why on earth are chokes so expensive?

[ChrisPackham]

I would like to get a second skeet choke, even using Estore I can't believe how expensive these things are!

Is it me, or are we just being ripped off for what is a small metal tube (because we have already shelled out for the big metal tubes)?

I am amazed that third party providers are even more expensive, surely someone could be knocking these out for next to nothing?

 

[timps]

The same reason ASDA's own jeans are £12 and Diesel jeans are £90 it is what they can get away with.

The cheapest choke manufacturer I have seen is http://www.shotgunchokes.co.uk/shop/index.php?catname=Individual-Chokes&id=345 no idea on quality or if they are any good.

 

[Salopian]

I would have to agree that aftermarket chokes are expensive, but if you consider the machining accuracy that has to be incorporated into a choke tube, considering the machinery involved , after production examination and measuring they actually work out at very good value if compared to car parts or specialist hourly labour charges.

In reality the production parts that are mass produced by the gun manufacturer are all we really need .

Shop and ask around, there are bargains to be had out there.

A friend has just bought a new gun and required some extra chokes , the dealer sold him 6 suitable Teagues that had come in with a Part Exchange for £50 for all six in their Teague case. 

 

[ips]

have a word with local smith as peter says they usually have some"under the counter for the weekend" stuff

 

[westley]

I have a full set of after market chokes (8 in all) never paid more than £20 for any of them. Shop around, they are there.

 

[Doctor Lecter]

aftermarket chokes are expensive  because shooters will buy them , as I have said before how can one measured metal tube be better than  the other one ?  

 

[Richard59]

Personally I found the Beretta estore remarkably competitive and quick to deliver some chokes, 

 

[shootinguru]

The reason why after market chokes are so dear is because the choke manufacturers know that the Numpties that buy them have their heads up their asses!  They are looking for the choke that cannot miss a target? You know and I know that there is no such thing but they will keep buying and hoping!

 

[perazzi]

Just my opinion all in the mind but if you've lost one and need replaced that's different 

 

[P1Fanatic]

Personally I found the Beretta estore remarkably competitive and quick to deliver some chokes, 

^ This. From memory Optima HP were just under £30 with a discount code, favourable exchange rate and a credit card that doesnt charge a fee for foreign transactions. Delivered from Italy was way cheaper than I could find here in the UK.

 

[Richard59]

They get lost, some of us buy second hand guns that for whatever reason don't still have the full set of manufactures chokes or in my case chokes that are far too tight ( for this numptie) and there's also some of us that like the same size blunderbuss choke in both barrels, and no I'm not thinking that they will magically transform ones shooting "success" from dog wee into Digweed, 

 

[shootinguru]

When you have lots of tight chokes you can have them taken out to whatever you wish if you have a competent machinist!

 

[Richard59]

When you have lots of tight chokes you can have them taken out to whatever you wish if you have a competent machinist!

whilst I don't doubt a tight choke maybe "opened out" for the vast majority of us do not have access to a favour giving machinist and would need to find and pay what the person would reasonably expect for the work, so for most the more cost effective option is to simply purchase a choke, the Beretta chokes I bought off the Italian company were with me within two days and I would be pleasantly suprised (do tell if you are aware) if as a commercial operation anyone could have turned around such work quicker or indeed cheaper than the sub £60 that the purchase of two said chokes set me back. 

Ill add that by purchasing new I have "extra chokes" whilst paying for opening out means the same if not more £ outlay but still only 2 but now far more expensive chokes