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Good evening gents! Do any of you know if it's possible (or prohibitively expensive) to replace a swamped game rib with a flat rib on an English double? What about on a Damascus gun? I have several very nice guns, but I simply don't shoot a game rib as well as a flat rib such as my modern guns have. Hammer pigeon guns are rather scarce and pricey so the thought occured to me that perhaps a new rib would be possible on one of my current guns.

I would guess 800 to 1200. The price of a rib and fitting it if necessary at the breech end, and the fitting all the way down. Then the re-bluing or redoing the damascus. Maybe one of the smiths will chime in.

I�d recommend you do yourself a big favor and just trade guns for what you want. That�s a big deal changing ribs on a shotgun. By the way, you are best off to maintain focus on your target, not the rib. Barrel checking, looking at the rib, causes a shooter to stop their gun with a resultant miss.

Thanks guys! Buzz, I find I lift my head off the stock with a swamped rib, a straight rib is easier to align properly every time

I shoot a raised rib better, too, and I don't look at it when I'm shooting, either. But, I think you're pursuing a very expensive alternative. Most anything can be done to a gun, with enough money and time, but I don't think I'd head down that road if it were me. JMO.

SRH

You could have a custom rib milled and added. Trap shooters do this fairly often. Some of those guys add a viaduct to their ribs. It cost several hundred and can be attached in a reversible way. Heck with rare earth magnets you might be able to add them to the rib and have the rib stick to your gun without any other alterations.

There is a company that makes stick on aluminium ribs. I see them on trap guns as guys try to follow the trend of super high ribs. As I remember you can remove these by pulling fishing line through the tape joint. No perment damage to the gun! I tried to buy steel rib material to replace a rusted rib and found no one has any to sell, Simmons had a little but would not sell it. I ended up making my own?

bill

CompNChoke makes and sells them, adhesive held anodized aluminum in different heights.

Call 912-829-3936

Tell them I recommended them. Good folks.

SRH

In thinking about it more, if your rib is only concave, "sunken", but is flat from end to end, the add on ribs will work. If, however, it is truly swamped from end to end you would have to have one custom built with "belly" on the underside.

It would still be way less $$$ than changing the gun's rib. Why not make one out of balsa, paint it black, and try it. 3M two-sided tape will hold it until the cows come home, and is removeable.

SRH

You might give Simmons a call. They could drill and spotface on your existing rib and solder in round posts for a vent rib. Granted a vent rib on a hammer double is like mag wheels on a horse drawn wagon.

A possible solution my be to stick on a magnetic "green worm" front sight.