Reeder Custom Guns - Anyone ever really work with the rifled chamber inserts

for shotguns? I won a bid on a Chippa (usually yucky) X-caliber 12 ga. to .44 Magnum rifled insert about 6-7" long that uses o-rings to sort of center and retard blow-back residue. I have this Frankenstein sawed off thumper 12 and figured I could shoot .44 Specials and Magnums to add some versatility. It was cheap. I can bail on it and get my money back so no real worry.

I also have a double 20 ga. and they make 9mm and .45 ACP versions for that. It sounds like fun. A report in Firearms News had a pretty good write up on the concept for "rifled" versions by another vendor.

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16 gauge barrels over a 9.3 X 74 (about the same power as the 375 H&H). I had a Caribou hunt up on the Arctic Circle planned and that being Canada no handguns were allowed so I decided to use my drilling. I bought a Krieghoff 22 Magnum insert that was about 12" long and put it in the right hand 16 gauge barrel. Surprisingly it was very accurate, even with the crude sights the Drillings have. On my hunt I took my 2 Caribou with the 9.3 X 74, an Arctic fox with the 22 Magnum and some Ptarmigan with the left hand 16 gauge barrel. So I swear by the inserts at least the better grade inserts. I think the Keieghoff insert cost me around $400 if I remember right so it obviously was one of the higher grade inserts. It used very minute screws and springs to sight it in, but once sighted in it was dead on.

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I have a 18 1/2 inch pardner 12 ga single shot, may look into one those if it works out for you.

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But some of the loons on Youtube show pretty good results taken as a whole. I need to do my own, these goobers don't do anything to suit me or answer seemingly basic questions a guy would ask.

I figure you can start at 12 o'clock and test fire to get the ting pretty close to sights by rotating. Mark it for repeatability. Some plinking with a double barrel 9mm Luger sounds fun.

My 12 is a Bakail Russian that I cut to 19". It only weighs about 5 lbs. though! I filed a groove for a rear sight and added a fiber green front sight myself. It hits great with my 1 oz. LEE home cast slugs with 17.5 gr. Red Dot, about 1100 fps.

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Anyone ever really work with the rifled chamber inserts

I used to collect drillings and my favorite was a Sauer

Let me know how that insert works out

This one ain't fancy, $27 delivered.