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I am in Dallas and have a Silver Pigeon IV in 20ga. Beretta has on sale on the web the 28 ga barrels for around $650. I went to the Beretta Gallery in Dallas and they quoted me $1,650.00 for barrels and fitting. I said what is the extra $1,000 for? They claim it's for fitting and a new forearm. Is a new forearm required? Can't I just use the 20 ga forearm? I now have no trust in them and am looking for a good smith near dallas who can perform this work. Thanks for all replys.
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I had a Beretta 687EELL 20 ga. and bought a 28 ga. barrel set for it from Joel Etchen. The 20 ga. fore-end will fit but there will be a small but noticable gap between the wood and barrels. Joel Etchen sold me a fore-end with the barrels - I vaguely recall the total price was $1200, which included having a local gunsmith do the fitting and refinish the fore-end to match the stock finish.
You might want to call Joel Etchen to compare prices. Coles is another option both to buy the barrels and to do the fitting - they charge $150 to fit barrels bought from them, $200 for barrels bought elsewhere.
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Well, Briley is not that far away and they could do it. If you use only the 20 ga forend you will probably have a gap between the tubes and the wood. May or may not be a problem on your gun. When I put together my Black Onyx 2-gauge set, I looked around for a second forend to fit the extra barrels.
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I bought a set of barrels for my sporting gun and all I had to do was time the ejectors. Maybe I was just lucky! 
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Thanks guys. I called Cole and it sounds like they can do it for much much less.
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I thought that barrels on the 68x series were interchangable except for forend fit.
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I thought that barrels on the 68x series were interchangable except for forend fit. That's probably true part of the time. I know a guy who bought a set of 20ga barrels for his 28ga 686 and the gunsmith could not get them to fit, even with some tweaking.
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Beretta barrels in that series will interchange much of the time with no, or only very minor, tweaking, but the only doubleguns I have seen that have truly interchangeable barrels are Valmets and Blasers.
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B. Rizzini used to brag loudly about the interchangeability of their barrels and parts because of their investment in CNC machining.
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I just fit a set of 410 to a 28 and it was about 6 hours of carefull work. The gap problem can be solved by adding a wood shim to the barrels the way Browning does on their four barrell sets.
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