Protect Your Chokes - Brief Article

Have you ever misplaced a choke tube or a choke wrench? Dinged up the threads on a tube? Or not had the right choke tube with you when trying your hand at a new sporting clays course?

Manufacturers like to stuff choke tubes into the foam packing material found in new shotgun boxes, but never seem to consider the trouble the shooter has protecting those dainty, finely threaded tubes once they have been removed from the original packing material.

Well, that purveyor of sensible plastic shooting products, MTM Case Gard, has come to the rescue with two new items every shotgunner will find handy.

The first is a Choke Tube Case designed to hold up to six extended or nine standard choke tubes and a choke wrench. The pocketsize case is molded from transparent plastic with internal dividers and a foam pad that securely holds the tubes in place once the flip-open lid is closed. Suggested retail is $4.95. There is also a smaller version of the Choke Tube Case that accepts three extended or six regular tubes, selling for only $2.95.

Better yet, MTM Case Gard has combined the larger Choke Tube Case with a compact Shotshell Case designed to hold four boxes of 2 3/4" or 3" 12 A gauge shells or two boxes of 3 1/2" 12 or 10 gauge magnums. The Choke Tube Case fits securely into the top of the Shotshell Case and can be removed and carried separately if needed. The whole unit locks snugly together and is fitted with an integral carrying handle.

The ingenious Shotshell/Choke Tube Case combination retails for $11.17 and is available in either camo or forest green colors.

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