ODD CHOKE BORING PATTERN

[Cold Spring]

Bob, I do some re-choking work using special tapered reamers and have occasionally seen (two) distinct tapers along the choke run on unmolested Fox and Ithaca barrels. Typically the trailing (forward) taper is sharper. As you know tapered choking must be done from the breech end unless it's done with "draw reamers" on a dedicated lathe setup. Yours sounds factory done to me and I look forward to seeing your patterning results. You might consider doing at least 3 shots per barrel to average the counts. JME.