The Sporting Clays Classic

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Originally Posted by edgarspencer

This is all new to me. Is this flare to aid in choke tube removal?

For some reason many modern guns have flared or swaged barrels to accommodate the thick factory choke tubes. Unlike Briley thinwalls which are thin and almost invisible. I sold a beautiful Perazzi MX28 due to the flared muzzles. Couldn't stand looking at them. The only choke tube gun I shoot now has Teague chokes in them and they are virtually invisible.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

For some reason many modern guns have flared or swaged barrels to accommodate the thick factory choke tubes. Unlike Briley thinwalls which are thin and almost invisible. I sold a beautiful Perazzi MX28 due to the flared muzzles. Couldn't stand looking at them. The only choke tube gun I shoot now has Teague chokes in them and they are virtually invisible.

Is the flare just on the outside to provide enough meat to tap the threads for the tubes? That seems sorta Rube Goldberg, if I'm understanding it correctly.

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Originally Posted by edgarspencer

Is the flare just on the outside to provide enough meat to tap the threads for the tubes? That seems sorta Rube Goldberg, if I'm understanding it correctly.

It looks like they swage the barrels expanding both the ID and OD to accept those chunky factory choke tubes. Briley figured it out years ago not having to expand the barrels. Although I have an 11-87 and a 1100 with factory choke tubes and they are not flared.