Good vidieo! As a retired machinist I appreciate the pucker factor turning that thin wall!! LOL I'm glad you didn't have to single point those threads!
Would like to get a 20" Maverick done in the future. Nothing 20" out there in stock for a while it seems. Good work you're doing. 👍 What chokes would you recommend that'd be beefier threads? Any idea what model shotgun that barrel was for? Or know already if Maverick 88 barrels are a candidate for threading.
Awesome video! 30+ years as an industrial maintenance mechanic that started with machine shop schooling. (We did both maintenance, fixing broken parts, replacing etc. AND making parts from scratch to get production running. I've been investigating gunsmithing since I retired, just for myself. I'm looking to do a a couple of over unders and put tubes in them to make them more versatile. Do you have contact info? I may just have you do them. Thanks Greg Heims
Great video, thank goodness for that tab or you’d still be there haha just kidding. Do you do many single shots? I have a H&R I’ve been wanting to make it into a turkey gun but it’s a fixed modified.
I'm not sure of the outer diameter of that particular barrel, but out of the plethora of different choke manufacturers out there, im sure that there is a style that it could be bored and threaded for.
I wish I was at point in life that I could apprentice under a gunsmith mentor. I saw someone on RU-vid bore out a barrel for a choke manually with a T handle. What is the advantage of using a lathe with all the setup time versus doing it manually? I am guessing it is a matter of precision?
Alot of people have older lathes that don't have a spindle bore large enough to properly indicate a shotgun barrel in it, so they have to go about doing the job by hand. Either method can get good or bad results depending on how much effort is applied to doing it right or wrong.
You can buy or rent a reamer and threading tool to do the job either way. A old school shotgun master smith near me did it by hand. What way would you have to do a double barrel ?🤔😉
Funny that you mention that. I just did the same to an over/under a week or so ago. Pretty much the same setup but a larger spider. I've done it by hand but it's more time consuming.
