Parker with blown barrel

[J. A. EARLY]

This is just my opinion, but rather than try to find an exact length to cut it back to like 27 inches, I would save as much barrel as I could, even if it ended up 27 5/8" or some oddball figure. The barrels I had cut on the blown 20 VH for someone else came out to some oddball length, but they still had enough choke left to throw something other than cylinder patterns.

Briley told me they can put tubes in 95% of the barrels they receive, but if you cut them all the way back to where they are straight tubes of the bore diameter and the barrels are not very thick, there is nothing there to do anything with even with thin-wall tubes. That was the case with a set of 26" barrels that had been cut back from 30" I sent them. As we have discussed before, they can get very thin just before the chokes, but hopefully not with this number 2 framed gun. I'm betting if the chokes had not been altered beforehand and as much as possible is saved, one will have a little choke left on this gun.