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I have an older (1969) Wingmaster chambered in 12GA 2/34.
It currently has a 28" barrel with beaded sight.

I am looking at replacing the barrel with an 18.5" cylinder choke.
All the newer barrels I can find are for 2 3/4" - 3".

I assume this will be fine, as long as only 2 3/4" is chambered?
 
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I have been using an 8 year old express barrel with removable chokes on my older wingmaster and have had no problems. As you mentioned, only use 2 3/4" in it and you will be fine.

Enjoy
 
You might even be fine using 3 inch in the 3 inch barrel. They won't blow up your gun, the worst that may happen is you have an ejection problem in the port of the action. I have seen many work fine.
 
Your 100% safe but the only issue is the 2 3/4" ejector "the ejection port is the same size"

You can have a gunsmith install a 3" ejector and then your golden :)
 
guntech said:
You might even be fine using 3 inch in the 3 inch barrel. They won't blow up your gun, the worst that may happen is you have an ejection problem in the port of the action. I have seen many work fine.
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Agree. May of the later runs of 2 3/4" receivers had 3" ejectors factory fitted. You can tell by looking as you know or it can be tried with no issue as you state.
 
on the ejector
take you unloaded gun look stright down into the ejction port with the bolt back, look right at the very back edge of the ejection port.
if you look stright down and you can just about see the bump of the ejector spring is a 3" if you see the bump at say a little but to the left then its a 2 3/4.
of course you could just check the ser number, but you never know , the ejector could have been changed out over the years.

If anyones looking for 18.5" barrels
we have a bunch for sale on our website

http://sjhardware.com/store/modules...d=579&osCsid=c01b87b216b7a3a12ef5ae8c8dadcbd1
 
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