Value of no-choked guns

[Dean Romig]

Right Pete, I remember that one.... groan...

I have one too, the Damascus 28 gauge.

[Brent Francis]

Ive read that cut barrels adversely affect the collineation (sp) of the barrels. It wasnt intuitive to me why this would be but wondered if anyone had first hand knowlege of this.

[Autumn Daze]

Brent, I have an old DH 12 gauge that was cut from 30" to 26" and the gun is hell at skeet. Maybe others have noticed a difference but this gun shoots point of aim.

[Brent Francis]

That seems right to me The only way I can figure that the point of aim would change is if the barrels werent bored straight to begin with.

[Dean Romig]

I'll vouch for Daves comments re: his cut DH. He sent it to me as it was originally awarded as a prize in the Middleton MA, Gun Club's competition (don't remember the year but Dave can probably quote it) and I belong to the Danvers Fish & Game Club with club property in Middleton Ma. so it would be a real novelty to shoot it there one more time.

It certainly did it's job when I did mine.

[Dean Romig]

My DHE 28 ga. on an 0-frame with factory 24" barrels shoots high. These barrels were originally longer (maybe 28" originally) and that probably accounts for the higher POI.

[Autumn Daze]

Any time Dean.....Any time..

[C.O.B.]

Dave won a prize for his shooting The POI probably has more to do with the stock dimensions than the barrel length for example trap gun are stocked to shoot high.

I have a DHE 20 with 26 inch barrels choked cyl/cyl, my guess is that these didn't leave the factory thast way. It makes a great upland bird gun in combination with my pointers. I wouldn't trade it for anything.