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Just wonderin?? Didn't the Fox shotguns use a barrel weight code stamping-- heavy vs. not so heavy struck barrel weights per gauge--

A Fox in any grade with 32" barrels (excepting the HE "Super Fox") 3" mag configuration has to be a rare find-- At least the "idiot" who reamed out the chokes on that 16- grade unknown-- didn't "hacksaw" the barrels off--

Some years ago, at a area gun show- I saw a nice Ithaca NID 3E in 20 gauge-- I asked the seller if I could handle it-- he OK'd that, and the muzzles looked "off" to my eyes, so I pulled out my pocket Stanley tape measure-- "Oh, no need, said the seller- those are 28" long barrels--" Being a firm believer in what Ronny Reagan once said about trust: "Trust is fine, but always cut the cards first!" I checked for myself- 26&5/8'-== NOT 28"-- Huumm, I said to him and I handed it back- must be time to get my Stanley tape measure rechecked-- seems to be off a tad-- World is full of shotgun "hacks"!

yes ed, like foxy said,
learn to spell, eh?

Jug choking may be an option for getting a little bit of choke back, but the vast majority of us who love 32" barreled doubles would not be satisfied with the amount of choke that jug choking could supply. Tight chokes go with 32" barrels like cat head biscuits go with butter and syrup.

SRH

Last week, the Preacher told us about Magic Reamers that can actually lengthen a chamber and leave MORE wall thickness at the end of the new chamber than at the end of the original chamber. I'd assume that you use Holy Water instead of cutting oil.

Maybe he knows where to get some Magic Choke Reamers that can also add metal.

About the best option for putting a tight choke back in the gun would be a permanently installed fixed choke soldered in place.

cat head biscuits? Please elaborate. Sounds like a southern specialty that is new to me.

You spent time around the SRS in SC and didn't learn about cathead biscuits? You must not 'a been down here long.

They're homemade....... using flour, baking soda, lard and salt (and water). They're about as big around as a cat's head, and about half that thick. Made right you can poke a hole in the side of one with your finger and fill it with butter and molasses, or syrup. Or, you can sop dove gravy with it. It's what all bread becomes at the rapture.

SRH

1.5 decades give or take -but not full time.

I learned about lots of stuff, but not that one.

I guess I've eaten them, but not seen them called that. No shortage of good biscuits in the South. Not remembering them at Carolina Barbecue or anywhere else. Corn fritters, mull, grits, sweet tea, etc, but not cat head bisquits.

My maternal GrandMother was well into her Eighties when she developed serious heart trouble, had to have a pacemaker installed. Her doctor told her to limit herself to One Biscuit & One cup of coffee a day. So she got herself a Big Mug that held more than a quart & rolled out her biscuit dough, then cut it out around a dinner plate. She followed the Dr's orders to a T though she just drank that one "Cup" & ate that one biscuit. Of course, it caught up with her, she only lived to 100. I guess one could have called her biscuit a Lionshead, is there any larger cat?

Anyone who ever listened to Jerry Clowers would have heard him talking about those Cathead biscuits & the "Whop" biscuits. Whop biscuits are the "Store Bought" abomination that comes premixed in a cardboard can that you Whop on the edge of the countertop to open.

What ever kind of biscuits you had Free loading BrentD would expect to eat for free.