Well now I don't feel so bad. I had a choke tube blow out of a $400 Mossberg silver reserve and now your other end of the price spectrum Perazzi had it happen. On mine I shot a round of skeet and put he gun in the rack and saw the tube missing, I couldn't belive I forgot to put it in. So, I check my case and sure enough one was missing. I vaguely rememberd seeing something fly at station 3 so I looked out there but cuondn't find it in the weeds. I came back a few days later armed with a metal detector and sure enough there it was. It did'nt harm the bbl but the tube had a little dent on the back end I staightened it out and put it in. A few hundred rounds later it is still fine. I wish I knew why it happend