So, what is your purpose in seeking to lengthen these barrels? Is it merely to get the barrels back to original length so you can shoot it at 30 inches rather than 25 5/8, i.e., aesthetics? Or is it to try to get a little more money for the gun when you (try to) sell it, probably sooner rather than later?
Or is there more wrong with the gun than just shorter-than-original barrels? Like pitting?
If you're already in a loss position with the gun as is, you're not going to make the loss go away by pumping $3k or so into sleeving the barrels. That would be true anytime, but especially so in today's sxs market. Probably the best expenditure of money you could make in the gun, assuming the barrels are ok pitting-wise, would be to send it to someone like Mike Orlen to get flush choke tubes put into it. (This assumes that, in cutting off 4 plus inches of barrel, the chokes went with it.) You can get that done for less than $200. Throw in a set of chambermates 12-to-20 or 12-to-28 and you sell someone a combination shotgun that will meet most every small game situation here in the states, and you can sell it at a price that will make sense (to the buyer) in this economy (and minimize your losses). And you can pitch that it's a high-quality maker, too.
It's a shame that such was done to a Bury, but it's uneconomic to go much farther - assuming the barrels are usable as is.
Last edited by Dave in Maine; 08/23/11 05:01 PM.
