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I've used both Briley and TruChoke thinwalls to good avail. TruChokes are a lot more reasonable. I too use a Bernadelli for waterfowl hunting. Mine's a Gamecock Deluxe, but instead of tubeing it I use both bismuth and Kent Matrix in it. Works great as it's choked M & F anyway. Thankfully I stocked up on when there were sales and close outs.

I had Briley install steel-safe thinwalls on a Merkel of mine about 5 years ago. I've killed everything from close clay rabbits to big Canada geese and wild turkeys with it since, with the correct choke installed.

They did a prompt job. The only complaint I had was the barrel set came back missing the beads. Two days later I had a new set from them which I easily installed myself.

I asked specifically about this when I had mine installed since it was on an older target gun. I don't really care what my hunting ammo costs since I use comparatively little of it, but if nontox were required for targets it would put me out of business so I wanted my gun to have the ability to shoot steel or other hard shot. They told me that their regular thinwall tubes were not steel-compatible, but that I could purchase steel-safe tubes to fit the existing thinwall threaded barrels at any time, and those would be safe. If this is a concern you can simply buy the steel-safe tubes when you have your barrels threaded. I don't know if the steel-sdafe tubes are necessarily extended, I had thought they could be purchased flush, but am not sure--a trip to their site should confirm that.

You can also have Briley thread the barrels and then get a set of the new Muller Chokes (http://mullerchokes.com) . They are lighter than the thinwalls and will handle steel.

Bob

Those Muller Featherlight chokes look interesting. Anyone have any experience with them? Anyone know what they are made out of?

--shinbone

I would NOT DO IT. I have seen several screwed up jobs from there and some bulged muzzles from steel shot also.

I have them in 3 gun barrels all thin. All work perfectly. I believe the last ones I had done were well below .040 I will see what I might have written down, I know that it was less then they said they needed as a minimum. On that set the main reason I sent the gun for the tubes was to correct the POI which they did beautifully without having to use concentric choke tubes. Briely gets a thumbs up from me.
Jeff G.

According to the article by Bruce Buck in the latest issue of ClayShooting USA they are "a blend of composites and aircraft aluminum that produces a material that is a third of the weight of steel and half the weight of titanium."

Bob