Dick Jones' post is interesting in stating that five years ago, fifty percent thought fooling with forcing cones was bad, fifty percent thought it was good. Well in over fifty years of buying and shooting shotguns of all types, my opinion has never changed. When I multiply the number of guns that I have owned in fifty years by the average cost of shipping a gun to a barrel butcher and paying his bill, I have saved about a third of the value of the house I am living in by not even once having a barrel butchered. Of course, this is assuming none of those guns would have increased in value because of the butchering. I am pretty safe in that assumption.