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Thank you Gentleman, sounds as if Mike is the guy.
I should have told you a little more. The gun is a underlever Husqvarna M-17 Hammer gun. A novelty, that I use to shoot an occasional round of Trap and I would like to use if for Skeet too.
Bill
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I would only use Mike Orlen if you wanted top quality at that best price with the fastest turn around :-)
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Hello Bill,
Although I am not able to use Mike for stock bending and barrel work, from all the
feedback I have read about him through the years I have no doubt I would choose
him. JMHO.
Best,
JC
"...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance." Charles Darwin
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Installing choke tubes for a beater gun won't add enough to its value to make up for the cost. And the benefits of choke tubes may not justify the expense, unless you're a red-hot sporting clays competitor who'll do anything for a 1 per cent improvement in your scores. As a bird hunter, having had several SxSs with tubes over the years, I've found them to be more bother than they're worth...carrying a case of tubes, choke wrench, etc., and cleaning and lubing tubes. And of course, if you're fixated on having the 'right' choke, you have to carry several kinds of ammo so you can have the 'right' load in each barrel. No knock on choke tubes - they make sense on single-barreled guns where you otherwise have no choice of chokes - but on SxSs, I think they're oversold. Even with tubed guns, I wound up using pretty much the standard chokes and loads for bird hunting, anyway. So in the interest of reducing clutter and simplifying hunting (and life in general), I've gone back to fixed-choke guns. Chacun á son goût.  That is a lot of good advice from Jack. I agree 100% with it. Mike just did a Super X1 trap gun barrel for me but I'd be hesitant about rushing out to have it done on a SxS.
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"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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I'm not opposed to screw-ins. I have a number of guns with them and a lot without. Not having them in a gun doesn't limit me, since I can just grab another gun. But, I can see the utility of screw-ins in some instances.
For that hammer Husky, I'd just have the chokes openned a bit to Mod/IC probably. Mod is plenty of choke from the 16 yrd line and even further while it's open enough to shoot skeet with as well.
On birds vs. clays, all I can say is it does a fair job of tuning up a shooter for wild birds. There are differences, the first is that a broken clay is not a dead wild bird necessarily. The other big difference is that a clay will come out of the trap at it's highest speed and then loose speed continuously. A wild bird is at its slowest speed on its takeoff and accelerates from there. On some upland birds that are larger like pheasant, clay shooters tend to over lead on birds that have just flushed. On quail, they seem to be at max speed by the time a shot is possible and my clay shooting seems to match up well. Some clays are thrown much faster than wild birds, some slower, some the same. Either way, I not serious about clays, but I shoot SC regularly because I enjoy it for what it is, not for what it emulates. Heck, I don't even keep score most of the time.
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Any of the guys mentioned here should be great, but any local gunsmith who has the tools should be able to do it. It isn't that hard of a job if they have the tools.
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I believe Briley is able to work with thinner barrels than Mike is--at least that's what I recall from a visit with Mike Orlen some time back. I opted for Briley thin walls for my pre-war Sauer and have never regretted it. Think I had about $500 in the project by the time it came back.
John McCain is my war hero.
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