Carlson’s Choke Tubes
Family-Owned in Kansas Since 1988
Carlson’s is a family-owned Kansas company best known as a leader in shotgun choke tubes — and the same attention to machining shows up in the line we carry here: their aluminum snap caps. At Keep Shooting we stock Carlson’s dummy rounds in .44 Magnum, .223, 7.62x39, and .30-06 — the safe way to dry-fire, train your trigger, and protect your firing pin.
About Carlson’s Choke Tubes
Carlson’s is a Kansas family business with a national reputation in shotgunning — and the line we carry at Keep Shooting is their precision aluminum snap caps, dummy rounds for safe dry-fire and training in .44 Magnum, .223, 7.62x39, and .30-06. Browse them with the rest of our gun accessories.
A Kansas Family Name in Shooting
Carlson’s Choke Tubes has been family-owned and operated since 1988, run out of Atwood, in the wide-open northwest corner of Kansas. The company built its name as one of the country’s leading makers of aftermarket shotgun choke tubes, backed by an enormous patterning database and its own electronic patterning board for dialing in point of impact and pattern density. That same machining know-how carries into the rest of the catalog — and the product you’ll find on this page is Carlson’s snap caps, a small but genuinely useful piece of training gear made to the same standards.
Snap Caps: Train Safe, Protect Your Firing Pin
A snap cap is an inert dummy round machined to the dimensions of a live cartridge, with a spring-loaded false primer that cushions the firing pin instead of letting it slam into an empty chamber. That makes them the right tool for safe dry-fire practice and trigger work, for function-testing feeding and extraction, and for protecting the firing pin and striker on guns you store or transport. Carlson’s builds theirs from durable aluminum — the .223 caps are anodized red for instant live/dummy identification, and the .30-06 is machined to SAAMI specs — so they cycle and chamber like the real thing. Keep a set in your range bag right alongside your cleaning gear and gunsmithing tools from Wheeler Engineering.
Match Your Platform
Pick the caliber that matches what you shoot. The .223 snap caps are perfect for dry-firing an AR-15 and checking a fresh build — pair them with our AR parts and AR-15 magazines. The 7.62x39 caps do the same job for an AK or SKS running our AK-47 magazines and AK parts. The .30-06 caps suit a bolt gun or M1 Garand and the rest of our rifles, while the six-pack of .44 Magnum caps is sized for revolvers and other handguns chambered in the big magnum — load them up before you stock the matching handgun ammo. Building out an AR? Add furniture and magazines from Magpul. Every Carlson’s order ships from Keep Shooting with fast handling and our satisfaction guarantee.
Frequently Asked Questions — Carlsons Choke Tubes
Yes, we maintain inventory of the most popular Carlsons Choke Tubes products. Each product listing shows real-time stock status. If an item is temporarily out of stock, you can sign up for back-in-stock notifications on the product page.
Yes! All orders over $49.95 qualify for free shipping, including Carlsons Choke Tubes products. Orders typically ship within 1–2 business days.
Keep Shooting offers hassle-free returns on Carlsons Choke Tubes products. If you're not completely satisfied, contact our customer service team for a return authorization. All products must be in original, unused condition.
Yes, Keep Shooting is an authorized Carlsons Choke Tubes dealer. All products are sourced directly and include full manufacturer warranty coverage.