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I had thought Al Lind had a pantograph. Phone number was 253-584-6361. One thing I keep seeing pop up is everyone is concerned about the barrels and for good reason. Find someone with a barrel wall thickness gauge and have the walls of those barrels measured. You may be stopped dead in your tracks right there unless you decide to sleeve it and lose that wonderful damascus or you could consider briley tubes. But you will not know unless you have the walls measured.
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I appreciate everyones concern about the barrels. The 26" doesn't bother me. I thought perhaps I might use this gun on the skeet range using black powder. It would certainly be a novelty here in Calgary. I have several guns that have been reamed and with the naked eye one can tell. Given the heaviness and overall external and internal condition I am fairly confident these barrels have not been reamed. However, I do take caution and will have the barrels measured.
KY Jon you are spot on with my thinking. Somewhere in the middle is the answer.
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D'Arcy Echols has a Hoenig and charges about $500 for a 2 piece stock semi-inletted. I wonder why Wenig got rid of theirs as I helped load it when they bought it from my friends widow. I think George Hoenig still does some stock work also.
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If you can get a hoenig stock duplicated for $500 that is the way to go. Given a clean pattern stock you are talking about almost drop in stock job. Finish the restock is much cheaper than getting a 90-95% semi inletted stock. It still takes hours to fit a semi inletted blank and time is money on a project like this.
My duplicator, which started out as a Gemini before a lot of modifications, will give you a 95% plus job. It takes about three hours for the average stock but then the real work starts. It takes many more hours to fit and finish a stock. I could not find a hoenig machine when I was looking for one to buy and had a hard time justifying three times extra investment in a duplicator.
There was one other hoenig machine in Colora Maryland at one time. Name of the owner escapes me. I am sure someone here can supply the name. so many names, and so little recall as you get older.
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Name came back to me. Bill Harvey.
Bill Harvey
1697 Liberty Grove Rd
Colora, MD 21917
410-658-5074
Give him a call and see if he can do the job for you. I have seen his work and it was well worth the money.
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I will meet up with Tamid next week and measure the barrels and bores when I'm back in Calgary. Then we will really know where the Lang stands.
Regarding the chokes, I would first pattern the gun and then shoot it a bunch before I worried about adding any choke. My experience is that no choke can be plenty enough for the ranges most of us shoot at. As Dig has stated before, the Victorians killed a lot of game before there was such a thing as choke. That was without modern shotcups as well...
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Repair stock to use as a master and this includes glass bedding to get perfect fit to the metal and then have someone with a Hoenig pantograph make you a new one with some wood left for changes in fit to shooter.Hoening pantographs will give you a very close fit without a lot of hours invested and then a good man can fit it up for a lot less than a from the blank restocking by hand alone. This is more in line with what I was thinking. However I don't know what a Hoenig pantograph machine is or who has one and can copy my stock. Any leads would be grateful. Here is a pic of John Vest's Hoenig doing one of my English blanks. I believe he has bought another one, but this gives you a look. Mike 
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Just noticed this ebay auction. Would it be possible to fit these barrels to my action? I realize everything is handfitted, just wondering if possible and how much work it would take? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Antique...=item19d8b5b2a4
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Sorry to all for the bad link. Upon further examination I realize there is no way these barrels would fit my receiver. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Antique...=item19d8b5b2a4
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