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Anybody know of a lengthened chamber or cone that has failed?
Any stats available from the proof house on failed guns?
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Mark:
Currently on page four there is a thread titled "Baker Resurrection" with photo's....advise you view that thread....
Just brought that thread forward for your review Mark......
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Doug, were any measurements made on the failed Baker?
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Mark:
On the original Baker Resurrection thread PeteM mentions that RMC (Randy) who owned the Baker took measurements I believe after it blew up.....Randy said that "for the record, it blew up after thirteen low pressure shots"....Randy said he had just purchased the gun, shot 8 himself then his brother shot the next 5 at which time it blew on #5.....he mentions all this in his last post over there on page 3..........I don't think he posted the actual measurements, but I think Randy would supply them should you ask him....?........PeteM on page 2 said he took measurements and remarked that the chambers were on the 'thin' side...?...
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...everyone considering grinding out and butchering chambers in the older guns should read and ponder... Dang, just when I thought I was getting conversant in shotgunese, I get a curve ball like that. I thought altering chokes and chambers was "raping" and altering stocks was "butchering?" Ah well...either way, I'm a butchering rapist. I guess it matters not whether you're pitching or catching...it's all baseball.  Mike the Ripper
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Mike, it is really hard to keep up with, I know what you mean....there is one here you would probably like quite well......it's where the butchers, choppers, cutter's and rapist's all had a beer together before their work.....(probably more like 5 or 6)........whatta ya think, your style...?....They didn't miss much......  http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=180655224Or maybe you like the 'modern' dimensions for your wood...they also did a little barrel work on this one (tune up) for the 'eastern lot' type hunting....and you get to choose your own rubber pad, what say you...?..... http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=180238924
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I have never lengthen a chamber, but I've "eased" the forcing cones on a few older guns. FWIW, I don't think I'd do it again. For one thing, I don't know that I could tell the difference. It's not like these were skeet guns; shooting them ten times a day is a lot. Destroying originality is like loosing virginity ... it seems like a very good idea at the time, but there's no going back. As I've gotten older I've decided that the world is full of shotguns. If you're not satisfied, it's easier, cheaper and less destructive to just find a different one than it is to make the one you've got into something it ain't. TT
"The very acme of duck shooting is a big 10, taking ducks in pass shooting only." - Charles Askins
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Didn't some american manufacturers intentionally cut their chambers to 2/5/8 and label them 2 3/4" I think I have more than one like in my safe?
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You can buy her make up and pretty cloths but shes still a ....
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