Re: Putting two halves together Archived Message
Posted by David Williamson on October 29, 2016, 2:24 pm, in reply to "Re: Putting two halves together"
Dan, you are correct as far as barrels fitting properly when the years are close. On my last post on having a 3 barrel set is wrong it is now a 4 barrel set with one for-end fitting all the barrels. I originally bought the gun with a set of 25 3/16" barrels but I knew I would find another set. This hammer gun is from 1908. The first ones were from a Grade 1, circa 1899 that were 30" and I thought uncut. When I asked the seller if he could measure the chokes to be sure, he stated he had no way of measuring them, (yeah sure) so I bought them and found out that they were originally 32". The funny thing is they still have choke about 1/2" from muzzle and the constriction is .014 in both. This is a great sporting clays and five stand gun. It shoots really nice. These barrels fit without doing anything. The other set is from another hammer gun circa 1900, a set of 26" that everyone thought was cut, but they were not. They have .032 and .034 constriction. These also fit without doing anything. The 4th set is the Armor Steel circa 1917 and these needed some work on the extension rib and off the top of the breech face to fit. Fitting the forend to all takes time. Once it fits one gun you ca only modify the for-end near the back of the "J" spring opening. Most work is done on the loop of the other barrels and the best way to do that is to take the wood from the for-end and see where it is not fitting. Sometimes it takes hours to get them to fit perfect. You have to remember that all for-ends were made to fit the gun they came with.
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