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I have a fox 16 that I chamber sleeved to 20. Two paper shells were stored in the gun for three or four decades. Moisture caused them to swell and the chambers were deeply pitted to the point the barrels were ruined unless the chamber could be sleeved. I cleaned out all the pitting and was going to just sleeve it back to 16 but decided to go down to 20 for extra metal. Ok I also wanted those 30" full choke barrels. You get a hybrid. The gun is heavier than a real 30" 20 would be but those over size bore throw very nice patterns.

Briley does chamber sleeeving. But you don't get a gun that is either like one or the other gauge. Think of it this way. If you sleeve a heavy ten into a 12 you get a heavy 12. I tire of lugging ten pound guns fairly quickly. Now if your 16 is too light would it be better as a 20? Easy way to find out is shoot it with a pair of Browning 16/20 chamber inserts before converting it permanently. If you like it proceeds, if not you are only out 30-40 dollars and your gun is still original.

Wow! Thanks for all the input: I am impressed. I bought a set of 16 to 28 Gauge chamber inserts some years ago and use them in my Fox 16 Gauge, and they work fine.
I am just a "tinkerer" who likes to mess with ideas.
Corresponding with "Stan" from Jawja, I have decided to get a 30" .410 to try.
But.......I sure would like to find a pair of old 10 Gauge to 12 Gauge chambermates to try. "Skeettx" and "Rockdoc" have me panting to try it. I realize that RST shotshells makes nice, light 10 gauge shells, but then I couldn't "fiddle" with loads. And, I dearly love to try lighter loads.
Sam Ogle

ps; I emailed Chambermate after discussing this the first time, and they haven't responded.
Sam

I gave up on chamber mates and bought 10 GA to 12 GA inserts from little skeeters instead. I haven't tried them yet but they look serviceable.

I tried the same...been a month and nothing back yet.

Regarding ChamberMates, read - http://www.seminolegun.com/
IIRC they have been shut down for quite some time now - business dispute or divorce, not sure.
I have their chamber insert sets in 20, 28 and 410 for use in a host 12GA gun. Very useful gauge reducers, and I have used my 20GA set a lot - quite satisfactorily....just read and heed the instructions.
Hope they "come back", as I want their "16 to 28GA" set.

Unfortunately, GaugeMates is out of business also

Thank you for posting the update and the link.

I called GaugeMate today and a very nice lady answered the phone and we had a nice chat, they do have 10 of the 10 to 16 gauge left.


Call GaugeMate at 916-859-0882


Mike

This is what I did many years ago, before the companies discussed above were available. Used them to shoot clays, and 10ga bismuth loads when hunting waterfowl.

Klunkermeister(Russ Ruppel) gave me the idea and then had a thread about making them posted here. Archives don't back to that far, so I'll post up the pictures again. Actually kind of amazed that I still have the pictures hosted.