[shinz]

I'm keen to buy a pump shotgun with a short (18-20") slug type barrel in the new year, probably a Maverick or Pardner Pump (I like the Pardners with the peep sights) as their prices are the best down under. Being of perverse nature, I would like to get it modified for removable ckokes so I can play with rifled chokes as well as various other chokes to try to improve buckshot patterns over the cylinder choke I presume it will come with. Are the barrels on these types of guns meaty enough to stand ckoke installation & does anyone have any recommendations as to which type of choke system is the best to go for?
Steve

[Lee Lapin]

For what you'd spend on putting in aftermarket choke tubes, you can buy an awful lot of ammo. Try anything with FliteControl wads for tight patterning buckshot (Federal Premium and LE loads, Hornady TAP), and for slugs, try Brenneke KOs out of a plain smoothbore barrel. I don't bother with choke tubes in short barrels any more, YMMV of course.

lpl

[earlthegoat2]

Or maybe spend a little more on a gun already equipped with interchangable chokes.

[shinz]

As far as I can see, the only guns with interchangeable chokes ready to go generally have much longer barrels (26 or 28") or cost a sh*t load more, at least in our neck of the woods, we have only a fraction of the selection that you guys have in the USA. For similar reasons, I tend to roll my own, buckshot caste with Lee .311 double molds & I will probably end up casting my own slugs. We're very much DIY types us Kiwis. :D Its a case of having to be. Even factory ammo costs the earth, I think that our importers probably pay pretty much what you guys do & then add shipping & their mark ups too it. Ouch !:(
Hence my original query. Anyone?
Steve.

[Jeff F]

Remington makes a 21 inch RS RC barrel for the 870.

[earlthegoat2]

shinz is saying that it is tough to get parts and accessories for guns in Oz. He is looking for an answer to whether the the pardner gun he is after has a quality enough barrel for the installation of choke tubes. I have no idea.

[shinz]

shinz is saying that it is tough to get parts and accessories for guns in Oz. He is looking for an answer to whether the the pardner gun he is after has a quality enough barrel for the installation of choke tubes. I have no idea.

Earl, thanks for clarifying that, yes, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. As it turns out I found the website of one of our larger stores who seems to sell the Pardner or rather their version of it in a Interchoke short barrel but without the peep sight, hoping I can marry the two together somehow or I'm back to my original query, my eyes no longer cope with rear sights on the barrel but no trouble with peeps. need to find out too which chokes they use & what alternatives are available, it may still be better to get a plain barrel threaded for a choke system that has better options.
BTW, I'm from New Zealand, Oz is an island off our West Coast.:D:D:D;)
Steve

[earlthegoat2]

Oh right, when I read you were from down under I just figured....

[shinz]

You're excused, we're just a bit more down under than the men from down under, as it were.;)
Steve