Subgauge Inserts in 687 EELL

[Stay Low]

Just sold my soul for a Diamond Pigeon 687 EELL with full length Kolar subgauge insert tubes with screw in chokes. I have never owned inserts and confused about use. The 12 g barrel has skeet chokes. Do I remove the chokes to insert the tubes? Is there a different choke that you use with the tubes? There are 2 oddly marked chokes in the case. Help. Shooting tomorrow come hell or high water.

This is generally accepted as a skeet gun. What makes an ideal SC gun? I'd like to be able to use there also.

 

[Dave McCracken]

Good skeet and SC guns overlap quite a bit, but I'd want a hair more weight forward feel for SC. That gem oughta work if you do your part.

Best to call Kolar and ask.

 

[TrapperReady]

BTW, I just want to put in plug for Kolar Arms.

For most clay games, I shoot a Browning 425, which when I first got it kicked like a mule. After only a few rounds of trap, my face would be so bruised and swollen it wasn't even funny. I'd shoot in the Tuesday night league, and the swelling would still be there on Saturday.

Anyway, I contacted Kolar to see what they could so, and they recommended that I stop by for a fitting. I scheduled a session with one of their smiths and stopped by a couple weeks later.

The guy (and darned if I can't remember his name) was extremely pleasant and obviously knew his stuff very well. We agreed to trim a little off the stock, replace and slightly reconfigure the recoil pad and relieve the forcing cones.

I figured that I would have to leave the gun and have them do the work. Nope. They went to work right away, and about 1 1/2 hours later, I walked out with all the modifications completed.

Everything they did was extremely useful, and the gun no longer pounds me nearly as much.

The whole time I was there, everyone was quite friendly, and it was interesting seeing some of their production guns in various stages of production.

 

[HSMITH]

I am but a couple miles from Kolar, and have been in there on business before. Overall some of the best craftsmen and nicest people a guy could find anywhere.

The 2 chokes with the additional markings on them should be the ones the tubes were fitted to, and they need to be in the barrels for the tubes to fit pefectly. Call them though and make sure that is still the case, it used to be. Kolar tubes are supreme quality, and a EELL? Wow, that is one hell of a set up. I would be beyond proud of that.