Anybody know where to buy a new Versamax barrel?

trapoholic

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Help would be mucho appreciated, I just bought one off here and no matter how far I shim and tweak it, It throws the pattern left...I need to find a new barrel, any suggestions?
 
Ox is right, they won't fix it cause I'm not original owner. I would send it back to him but I'm not sure If he knew it shot to the left when he sold It to me or not...I give him the benefit of the doubt, but Ill talk to him.
 
trapoholic said:
Help would be mucho appreciated, I just bought one off here and no matter how far I shim and tweak it, It throws the pattern left...I need to find a new barrel, any suggestions?
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Are you 100% sure it is the barrel?? Could it not be a choke tube, stock fit etc. How much left are you talking. Have you tried various makes and shot sizes to see if it acts the same?? A new barrel will have to come from remington and are about 600.00
Have a you had a good smith take a look at it.
 
I pretty positive it's the barrel, Or the rib off kilter a bit. I tired all 5 chokes outta it and they all shoot at least 5" left at center mass...I was raised by a gunsmith and as far as I can tell it is for sure the barrel or a off center rib.
 
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I pretty positive it's the barrel, Or the rib off kilter a bit. I tired all 5 chokes outta it and they all shoot at least 5" left at center mass...I was raised by a gunsmith and as far as I can tell it is for sure the barrel or a off center rib.
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Not being smart but being rasied by a smith doesn't mean diddly. My dad had a shop and three of my brothers would not know a 12ga from 20. Anyway
Did you check the rib straightness and barrel quickly with a steel carpenters square.
or did your Dad ever show you how to tell by the rings inside
By looking through it, and observing the light rings they should appear concentric throughout the length, without running to one side of the barrel. That one is hard for me to explain on a response but an experienced smith would tell you in a second...
Being a new remington more than likely the chock tubes are not installed correctly many express barrels are terrible.
5" at how many yards??? That may not be bad.
Bird shot or buck shot you are shooting and what number bird shot if bird shot.

Also are you a cross-dominant shooter by any chance (right handed and left eyed)
 
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Not being smart but being rasied by a smith doesn't mean diddly. My dad had a shop and three of my brothers would not know a 12ga from 20. Anyway
Did you check the rib straightness and barrel quickly with a steel carpenters square.
or did your Dad ever show you how to tell by the rings inside
By looking through it, and observing the light rings they should appear concentric throughout the length, without running to one side of the barrel. That one is hard for me to explain on a response but an experienced smith would tell you in a second...
Being a new remington more than likely the chock tubes are not installed correctly many express barrels are terrible.
5" at how many yards??? That may not be bad.
Bird shot or buck shot you are shooting and what number bird shot if bird shot.

Also are you a cross-dominant shooter by any chance (right handed and left eyed)
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My Grandaddy was a smith, he taught me all he knew, the rib rings are perfect straight from start to finish I looked at that after I posted it and slapped myself. Ill give my square a try, I am right handed and left eye dominant, but I shoot both hands depending on the situation being ambidextrous Is a good perk...It shoots left at 25 and over with #4 all the way up to #7-1/2

Its mind boggling to me and frustrating not being able to figure out the problem, I fix all my own guns because I grew up doing it, but this one is a pain in my ass!!
 
trapoholic said:
My Grandaddy was a smith, he taught me all he knew, the rib rings are perfect straight from start to finish I looked at that after I posted it and slapped myself. Ill give my square a try, I am right handed and left eye dominant, but I shoot both hands depending on the situation being ambidextrous Is a good perk...It shoots left at 25 and over with #4 all the way up to #7-1/2

Its mind boggling to me and frustrating not being able to figure out the problem, I fix all my own guns because I grew up doing it, but this one is a pain in my ass!!
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I am not sure what rib rings are. I am talking looking inside the bore.
Did you not find it strange I asked about your eye dominance.??
The 5" triggered something with me. Shooting both sides left and right I thought was cool also but really it is not. Years ago I would shoot 1/2 the skeet field left and the rest right but I could never win matches and shoot consistent.I honestly don't think there is a dam thing wrong with your gun it is more how it is fit to you or how you are shooting it.
I am right handed but left eye dom and shot like that for over 20 years when in competition but could never be consistent and many of my shotguns not all were about 6" to the left but it was due to design, fit and what ever I was doing to compensate for the eye issue and didnot even know I was doing it. I talked to a gun coach and eventually switched to 100% left which took me 4 years to get my scores back and all of a sudden I could run them consistently and changed the point of impact on many of my guns. My 10ga browning gold is one that never changed it has always been high and to the left but in all honestly it is a shot gun if off 5" with bird shot if it cannot be easily corrected does that really make that much difference maybe but the geese don't know it
How many shotguns have you patterened?? any more shoot to the left?? and of them remingtons?? newer ones ??
Have you shimmed the stock yet??

What I have been told and practise
Stand about sixteen yards away from the board, and focus on the target area in the center. Mount and lower the gun twice, and on the third time as the gun hits the shoulder, fire. Do not aim the shotgun like a rifle. An area should emerge, after five or six shots, where the bulk of the shot is concentrated, and for every inch that the pattern is “off” target, the stock will need to be adjusted by a 1/16 th of an inch. If the main shot concentration is 4 inches high and 4 inches left, for example, the stock needs to be given 1/4 inch of cast and 1/4 inch comb height. Ideal shot distribution is 60% above the target 40% below unless a high shooting gun is favored. A trap gun for example should pattern high because in the initial stages of flight the targets are always rising. etc
 
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Ya, maybe put a shim in it that casts the stock to the right so your eye lines up better, might solve the 5".
 
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