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Amigo Will --- please forward me the address of these sites. Thanks. Ken (kenhurst@suddenlink.net)

Questions, I just bought a Remington 17 with rib barrel and PolyChoke. With all the Poly's and Cutts around, did the factory do any installation or did they all send there barrels out for install? I remember as a kid, late 50's, that I sent to the Poly company for their catalog and received thru the mail a box for sending in my barrel. Also, the end of this Poly has an extension that appears to be ventalated much like the front end of the Cutts. What's the function? My brother has a Poly on a Mdl 12/16ga. and his does not have that. Is it an early attempt at recoil reduction? BTW, has anyone done a history or write up on the PolyChoke and Cutts? And how effective is the Poly on choke function. Thanks for your reply. Randy

many factories installed their own. poly-choke authorized factories and gunsmiths and assigned a code number to them. this is mentioned in Shirley's book on Auto-5's and the code numbers for the FN installed and the ones installed by Browning here are noted.

i asked the current company about a list of codes as i've had a model 12 with a polychoke with a number stamped on it and i was curious if it were factory but whatever records of what numbers were assigned to whom did not get transferred and they've no idea who was "authorized".

roger