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I have a couple of Parker 16's with cut barrels. One is 27-3/4" (from 28") and the other is 27-7/8" (also from 28"). Cut just enough to ruin their collector value, but not enough to spoil them as shooters. I think they were were cut to correct damage to the muzzles, probably from a fall or banging against a rock.
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I have my Dad's Lefever Nitro Special 16 ga. which he sawed off two inches to hunt quail with. This was done somewhere between 1948-1950.
I also still have the two inch piece since my Dad never threw anything away.
Me? I never miss. This new breed of quail can fly with their hearts shot out!
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The XXVs had very little impact on the shooters of any day.
One the American side of it all, I looked at a Winchester M21 with 26" barrels - it looked and felt like a clubbish brute!
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Lowell,
Rumor has it that Tony G has a technology fix for the club. The rumor is that a titanium 21 is or will be offered. That combined with barrels struck to order and his scaled recievers, should make a decent gun.
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Is there any reason the precision trimming of a doubleguns chokes would not be a practical alternative to reboring? The taper would be shortened ,but the end restriction could be opened slightly and accurately by substituting a milling machine or percision grinder for the hacksaw. Perhaps this is done?
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Sidelock
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Saw, sawed , sawn - in British English 'saw' is an irregular verb.
Saw, sawed, sawed - in American English it is a regular verb.
Lowell - 'The XXV had little influence on shooters of any day' - are you having a laugh or just ignoring the UK in your comment?
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Sidelock
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The Brits always refer to them as "sawn" off, but we in North America seem to use "sawed" off. I wonder why? As Winston Churchill, I believe, once said, "We are a common people separated by mere language." Or as I like to say, If the colonials had lost the Revolutionary War, we would still be speaking English.
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Sidelock
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My "house gun" is a Lefever Nitro 12ga. that someone (not me) cut to a mere 18.5 inches. Think there are any chokes left there? :-)
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I sawed off an Ithaca 12 ga to 21 1/2" because of a split on one of the barrels due to an obstruction. Drove aluminum foil into the void and filled with solder. Great car gun now to have in the front seat for skunks and the occasional "out of the window" crow.
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Small bore, now maybe you Brits just didn't think your 25" would sell very well here in the states, and you kept 'em all - but the ratio of 30" to 25" barreled guns is what.... 20:1 - most likely even higher than that. I'd bet 30:1 in favor of 30" barrels over 25"s
So, someone in merry ol' England didn't shoot XXVs hmmmm?
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