My question is rather out of way, but during last discussion with my gunsmith,he told me that he recently put a fixed choke on a sawed, side by side shotgun(barrel shortened from 30" to 26").
His customer wanted right barrel as I.C and left as Mod and wanted fixed chokes,so he swaged down the last inches of both barrels to the desired tightness,using choke guages,and re-installed the rib and blued the barrels.
I was wondering how correct his method was and what might be its useful life.It also came to me that the batter option was to back bore (over bore) the shot gun all the way except the last inch or so.This way better patterns were also achieveable.
Which is better way of doing it.Is there any other way to do it or my gunsmith was right.
All suggestions are welcome.....

[ 10-14-2002, 12:33: Message edited by: RAO ]

I am putting it again on board if you missed it and if you feel anoyed,please accept my apoligy.
RAO...

RAO---

The usual way of restoring chokes is to ream and tap for a choke made in England .......that has temperarily (I hope) left my head......that has no notches in the end and is considerably thinner than "standard". They're installed with an expanding mandrel and aren't meant to be removed or changed. Some jobs done in England takes a magnifier to see at the muzzle. They're polished to final size internally and can't be seen by looking down the bore.

To swage in a choke takes seperating both barrels, underlug and two ribs. Then the barrels have to be cleaned before the chokes is rolled in. You can do it with a big, hand operated pipe cutter with rollers instead of the cutting blades. The blade attachement points have to be cut off and a new, one inch (inside) wide, set welded or silversoldered in for the rollers.

Then you'll always see a big ripple in the end of the barrel. Only a trap shooter or old time turkey shoot specialist would conside that method of re-choking.

I once "re-choked" in six steps a trashy old single barrel and won turkeys and hams all over two counties in "closest pellet to the X in a paper plate at 40 yards" luck shoots.

That gun was a legend and had to travel incognito with a different stock or paint, wire, electrical tape, etc. Otherwise it would be be shunned. I got $20 a day rent. Somebody finally noticed the rippled barrel and the camaflage no longer worked.

RAO--

I just noticed where you are and laughed out loud !!!

"Turkey shoots" are popular in America and consist of many kinds of marksmanship contest. They're usually run by charities and can be be VERY profitable if the prizes are donated first.

It's normal for 5 people to be in one contest. The entry fee in $2 to $5 or so and the winner gets a ham or turkey worth about $15. Some are luck and some are skill. The one I referred to is a luck shoot that counts on a very tight pattern to have the pellet hole closest to a drawn cross or X to win. The shell is supplied. Everybody shoots the same thing.....and you don't know what that is before hand. The shells are donated, too. Lots of fun and a tight shooting 12 gauge can feed a family for a week!

In the West the Turkey shoots are usually done with a rifle. Clay pidgeons offhand at 100 yards, 5 shots for $5, best score wins. Bring your own ammo is common.

Do you have similar contest in Pakistan? This might be fun to trade Turkey shoot ideas from around the world.

The term "Turkey shoot" comes from the original shooting game of shooting at a live Turkey's head. If you hit it you took the target home and ate him.

JBelk,
Since we do not have turkeys in our country, so it was not my intention.here full choked guns are primarily used in duck hunting.Local hunters usully chop their 30-32" barrels to more practical 28" and change chokes from IC to FULL or MOD.