Thanks Russ. She's tight in the choke for sure. I have a friend with a VHE 410 thats skt/skt does anyone know what that constriction is?

Best way to find any choke is to shoot the gun, but I use this choke chart for basic constriction info.

http://www.colonialarms.com/chokespecs.html

Bill

Rich ,If she were mine and I decided to open the chokes ,I would consider just the right barrel and leave the left Full . You are like myself in the fact that the vast majority of Birds hunted and shot are over a Pointing Dog which allows for much closer shooting than the foot hunter without a Dog ! Any way ,just an opinion ,I don't have a Gauge for measuring bore dimension ,but on my Brass Galazan Gauge ,my Parker 410 is choked ,Right / I.C. and L / Mod. ,I shot many Woodcock with it last season and had no problems killing pointed Pheasants " Stone Dead " ! Best ; Russ

IC & M would be fine but what is that constriction? .022 & .023 are full and fuller and that just isn't going to work for what I bought this for. Galazan wants $500 to open the chokes:shock::eek:

that does seem steep to me too.
how about the place in Penn. he does alot for trap shooters and sporting clays shooters. i think his name is john alum. the place is believe is alums gun craft.
it may be alms gun craft. i have heard good things.

to much to open the chokes.... charlie

I have a smith right here who is opening the chokes on a 20ga project from M&F to skt/skt. I'll see how these come out and if it works out then he can do the Fox. There is a gentalman from MA who did some choke work for me but i can't remember his name but I'm sure I still have the shipping carton. He was fast and reasonable.

Rich, Could that be Mike Orlen?

That's the guy. He did a great job on some 16ga Damascuss bbls, opened them up to .004 & .010.

Mike Orlen, Amherst MA, 413-256-1630

Abe Chaber opened a little gun for me a couple of months ago and he did it from the breech... the correct way to do choke work. And he is a whole lot less than $500 and so is Mike Orlen!!

$500 to open chokes is absolutely absurd.

You know what they say... "If you don't want the job simply price yourself out of the market."
I don't think CSMC wants that kind of work... or at least their price reflects that.