Jawje, you should be ashamed fum yo'sef!
Thanks, Miller. I'm going to try it, just for fun. I am attempting to build another MX-8 that is an EXACT physical match to my main sporting clays gun, the Winchester imported one. It has the ugly blue tiger stripe colors. If it works, fine, if not, I'll have it blued and the only difference will be the colors. No big deal, since the main goal is to have two guns that handle and shoot EXACTLY alike, and the color of the receiver has naught to do with that.
Both guns have fixed choke barrels that have had the chokes opened from full/full to .020"/.020". Neither have enough metal at the muzzles for anything but Briley thin wall chokes, and measurements reveal that there would only be .005" metal remaining between the two bores after boring and threading. I'm not willing to risk that at this time with either gun, and have been shooting my best scores, since beginning to compete in registered shoots, in the last year with the tight chokes.
A Perazzi service man who does my work on them wants to polish this one's receiver and leave it "in the white", like some of the newer ones are done. I don't particularly care for that look, however.
