Need advice and info on 28ga Repro mods - Page 8

Autumn Daze · 05-19-2010, 06:50 PM

My PH 16 gauge is choked cyl and full. Perfect for the uplands...

Setter Man · 05-20-2010, 10:07 AM

I just had my 28" barrels opened to .008/.018. Seemed about perfect for grouse and clays. (Although, my 26" barrels, .004/.006, have been EXTREMELY effective on grouse).

Dave Miles · 05-20-2010, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Jay Gardner

I just had my 28" barrels opened to .008/.018. Seemed about perfect for grouse and clays. (Although, my 26" barrels, .004/.006, have been EXTREMELY effective on grouse).

We're close Jay, I had my 28" barrels opened to .004" and .014"

Setter Man · 05-20-2010, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave Miles

We're close Jay, I had my 28" barrels opened to .004" and .014"

Great minds....

I picked up my Repro and Brads work actually looks better in hand than in the pictures. Also, I showed the gun to Nick Ranzau at Jaquas and they sold that repro originally in 1995 for $2,800. Small world.

SXS OHIO · 05-23-2010, 10:09 PM

I did a test with my repro 28ga. set....shot 50 rounds of clays X2 100 total. at each station I shot both sets of barrels IC/M M/F factory chokes at .oo4/.013 .014/.033 My scores ended up about the same for each barrel set. did well with open chokes on close birds and less good at longer shots....better with tight chokes on the longer shots and not as good on close ones. The chokes do exactly as they were ment to! In order to improve my score I would need to swap barrels for the presintation at hand. I have not paterned them barrels as yet....will be doing that soon. If I find no problems with my paterns I will not mess with the factory chokes. Will use the barrel set most usefull for the game to be hunted. I hope the 5# shot hunting loads patern well from the .033 full choke or the 6# shot. If it does I will be very happy and leave them alone! I have always shot SXS guns with ample choke. I do well at clays.....live birds are either left untouched or stone dead. Shotguns like rifles can be fussy about loads and paterns....If the patern is good the choke just needs mated properly to the range of the target. My Kansas bird gun is a 16ga. choked ic/full with double triggers, close in and far out....perfect....(-: Thanks all Kenny Graft SXS ohio...

Bill Anderson · 05-23-2010, 11:36 PM

I agree with Kenny. I really don't think barrel chokes should be changed or opened from the factory milling. Before long all too many of the Parker Reproductions will be in with the sea of molested guns like Parkers, Smiths, Winchesters, Ithacas, Remingtons and so on where it is becoming almost impossible to find an original choked shotgun. It is far better to use the choke as it was intended, instead of lowering value by opening the barrel. You might think you will own your shotgun until they close the lid on you, but in reality I think this happens very little. True you may have had your shotgun for 5, 10, 15 or more years, but eventually I think most owners change their mind, sell and move to another shotgun. If everyone would just slow down a bit and try different loads at various ranges you might learn that how each barrel is choked is really not that bad. Before too long you will be asking the seller of every Parker Reproduction that you want to buy if someone has opened the choke or not. Thankfully though, I think most of us are past using a hacksaw to solve a tight choked barrel problem like in yesteryears. That is why I never knock anyone who chooses to buy a screw-in choke shotgun, as they are not the ones who are destroying the very few unaltered classic shotguns still out there. Just my opinon, but a good one!

Dean Romig · 05-24-2010, 12:02 AM

I'll drink to that Bill

Bill Murphy · 05-24-2010, 09:59 AM

There is a use for every choke combination. I find it strange that a guy who owns forty shotguns insists that every one of them be suitable for pointed quail. For gosh sakes, if you need a quail gun and don't own one, buy another shotgun.

Autumn Daze · 05-24-2010, 10:25 AM

"buy another shotgun" I like how you think Bill...

Chuck Heald · 07-05-2010, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

There is a use for every choke combination. I find it strange that a guy who owns forty shotguns insists that every one of them be suitable for pointed quail. For gosh sakes, if you need a quail gun and don't own one, buy another shotgun.

Good one Bill.