When I worked for the gunsmith......

by A K Church, Sunday, May 21, 2023, 05:37 (552 days ago) @ JimT

NEF was still doing the barrel installation deal. Early oughts. They took for freaking ever, but they did good work pretty cheaply.

So I sent my new 12G WalMart NEF Pardner back to them for the installation of a 30" full choke barrel. Got it back, pulled the barrel, and proceeded to cut it (under gunsmith supervision) on a lathe back to 22"-the 30" barrel was pretty thick walled at the 22" mark, and that's why I chose it. Threaded it for Remington insert chokes, installed an unknown make poison green fluorescent front sight bar, and installed swivels and an M16 sling.

That was a GREAT setup. So of course I let it go. But if I lived in some place like Australia, where a gun "licence" is hard to get, and I wanted a gun of huge versatility, that might be it.