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ILoveCats:
Any local (Lincoln) 'smith recommendations? 

Considering having an 870 Wingmaster barrel cut back 2-4" to the next section of the rib, re-crowned, bluing touched up on the crown/rib, and bead reinstalled.

Maybe install a Remchoke if possible, but this is an old 20-ga "lightweight" (small ring) fixed-choke barrel, so may not have the thickness for that.

Any guesstimate on cost for above?

Thanks.

ILoveCats:
Nobody?

Don't make me get out the hacksaw!

SemperFiGuy:
Howsabout..............

You shed some light on why you want to do it??

Maybe we can talk you out of it, save you some money.

Or, alternatively.........If it sounds good:

We'll all go out, each buy one, put them together in a pool, get them all cut down, get group reduced rate.

sfg

ILoveCats:
I've got a lovely old Wingmaster "Lightweight" 20, back from the days when they were really well made. Came with a fixed full choke 28" barrel that patterns beautifully.

A few decades ago I saw a matching 28" modified-choke light contour barrel at a gun show and picked it up, thinking it might be handy.

After mucho intensive pattern testing of these particular barrels with myriad shotshell loadings, I've learned that obsessing over the difference between modified and full choke is what Jeff Cooper used to call an unhealthy obsession over insignificantly small increments. Like having a 44 magnum revolver and insisting that you "need" a 41 magnum. Turns out I can get a much wider variety of patterns simply by switching loads than I can from switching  barrels.

That's the background.

So the bottom line is I've got this spare, modified barrel been sitting 'round since Reagan was in office and I'd like to chop it back to the next section of vent rib (26") or even two sections (24"). Thinking it might make a more handy bedside shotgun than a 28" tube for when things go "meow" in the night. Might be a good quail gun too. And, I've never shot skeet but it's always intrigued me, so I thought it might be fun someday to try it with a 5.5 lb, shorter barrel, pump 20.

Les:
I used to know a guy in Lincoln but would not recommend him after I took 2 field grade 12's (870 and 1100) for adding a second bead for both my kids shooting trap, one was fine the other the bead wasn't centered on the rib  ???  I'd think about contacting FCW in Cortland.  I also believe there's a couple guys out in Malcolm that work on guns and have an FFL, had a friend get a firing pin replaced in his almost new Savage .270.  Malcolm General store if memory serves, although I can't vouch for if they can handle it. 

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