The above shown gun comes with IC/IC. How expensive is it to have removable choke tubes put in.

The gun is in excellent condition. It is a B.C. Miruko M 2800 12 guage with 26 inch barrels. Barrels are beautiful just one little nick on the stock. I was able to get it for 305. The shotguns over here in Japan all come with fixed chokes mostly skeet/skeet. I am wondering is it more expensive to put removables in or just buy a new shotgun. I love to hunt upland bird. Usually pheasant in Washington and Iowa with some dove shooting in South Texas. Any guesses would be great.

I bet if you go to this website and contact them, they will have an answer for you.

http://www.briley.com/gunservices/shotgunservices.html

Not to put Briley down (no doubt, they are very good at what they do, and on a top end gun it "may" be worth it), but it would cost more to have them install chokes than the price paid for the shotgun.

Get a hold of a copy of Gun List. There's always a handful of guys listed in the back under Gunsmith Sevices that will do it much cheaper.

Ususally, double-barrel shotguns, both O/U and S x S, have barrels that are quite thin which makes installing tubes difficult if not impossible. The only way to tell is to measure the wall thickness, all the way round as barrels sometimes are not consistent, and see if there's enough material for the type choke system you have tooling for.

look up Scott Carlson of Carlson chokes in Atwood Kansas....he's the man for chokes IMO.

You got one hell of a buy on that shotgun. Did you purchase it in Japan? Miroku builds the Citori for Browning and theirs is in essence the same gun as the ones with the Browning name on it. I bought a 20 ga Miroku skeet a few years ago and had choke tubes installed by Mike Orlen. He had it on it's way back to me about a week after it arrived and for about 1/3 the cost that Briley wanted. I had the forcing cones lengthened as well as both barrels threaded for tubes and got 6 tubes and the bill was $242. Without the forcing cone work, it would have been $172.

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You got one hell of a buy on that shotgun. Did you purchase it in Japan? Miroku builds the Citori for Browning and theirs is in essence the same gun as the ones with the Browning name on it.

Yes....and the Winchester 101 as well. I agree....the price was a steal!!!!!

Chic beat me to it.

I have used Michael Orlen several times and highly recomend him. Fair prices, excellant workmanship and prompt.

What Ive seen done on shotguns that weren't "worth it" to have tubes installed, is to install ONE barrel with choke tubes and leave the other.