Okay, I'll bite.... define "resleeve"..... As in the same gauge or the next smaller gauge????

 

I need for it to be the same gauge. It has a full choke now and I want it to shoot a tighter group, if possible. It is an old shotgun that I bought to fix up to take to turkey shoots, but the barrel is pretty rough right now.

 

My dad had a 12 gauge single barrel made in Brazil bought from Kmart new, had a guy squeeze the barrel down to the point a dime placed edgeways wouldn't start in the end of the barrel. The gun would put 65 pellets in a plate with number 7 shot at 35 steps , when we got it back it would put 250 pellets at the same distance. Took it to the turkey shoot and won 13 out of 15 shoots. The gun was barred from then on.

 

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Just have it back bored. It will smooth up the barrel and if you stop before the choke it will make that full shoot like an extra full. You can buy the reamer for less than $100 from brownells and do it yourself! I would stop 4 inches or so before the end to give you more choke constriction. I would do around .740 or so. That should clean her right up.

 

Tim Carrick of Carrick's Custom Guns on Highway 8 South out of Lexington NC can do it for you.

 

backbore

Is that really all it is to backbore one is to ream the barrel? I work at a place that has a really great machinest, would it take a special reamer or could he do it with one he has?

 

Is that really all it is to backbore one is to ream the barrel? I work at a place that has a really great machinest, would it take a special reamer or could he do it with one he has?

the reamer is made for backboring. It is tapered at the front and then tapers to the final diameter. Just a long T handle holder and the reamer and go to it.

If you can take a screw out you can backbore you own barrel.

easy as pie! The normal 12g barrel is a .729 bore i would go to .740 that should take the pitting out Unless it is really deep. Also remember the choke is the amount of constriction not the size of the end of the barrel. So you full choke is prob ally around .705 or so giving you .025 constriction which is a full choke but if you do not cut the choke and stop 4 inches from the end of the barrel you will now have .036 constriction witch would be Extra full or a touch tight than x-full. So that would work for your Turkey shoot!

Here is the reamer for $80 you will need a long handle though to turn it you can make your own or buy one.
http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=7723/Product/_BACK_BORE__REAMER

 

I agree with Bugman PLUS......when the smith does your work, you should do the forcing cone also. Different reamer. If this guy has a lathe with oil flushing, he can do a continous turn. If you do it by hand, it requires two turns, back it out, flush and start again. Takes maybe an hour to do the barrel this way. Barrel should be polished and burnished. I use a brake cylinder sander an steel wool.

 

Sleeve

Well Monday I sent my barrel off to Gary's Guns to sleeve it. He put a .640 sleeve and a chamber ring in it. He said the bore was .725. So do you think with a .640 sleeve with wad stoppers cut into it and a chamber ring it will shoot pretty tight?

 

Yea a .640 should shoot TIGHT patterns. A full is .705 X-full is .695-.690 or so. The chamber ring is more to headspace the shell. You will haft to shoot it and see how i patterns! I am assuming by sleave you mean a sleaved choke.

 

Hello, newbie here , but not new to turkey shoots. i live in King and i am from Winston-Salem. The thing with chokes is that super tight might not be always the best. It is actually kinda determined from your bore size of the barrel. Some shoots might mot let you shoot that tight of a choke either.The design of the choke has alot to do with it. As far as the chamber ring, I do have some with the ring and I have some that are full built chambers. A ring will just help shorten the chamber , while a custom chamber will be built to the shell, thus taking out all of the slop. Where do you plan to shoot?

 

I also do turkey shoots and have a sleeved barrel mine is sleeved to .675 for shooting 9s at 90ft. But the rules of the shoot might keep you from going to a 640 you should consider having the barrel threaded for rem chokes or win chokes and have you some custom chokes made.

 

Does anyone know of a place to buy 2 2 10 12 ga loads