If my barrel is smooth cyl, worth while to have gunsmith to add thread for choke?

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The first shotgun I bought has just a 18.5" smooth cyl barrel with no choke. Should I try to have a gun smith to add thread for choke? Or better just to try to find an aftermarket threaded barrel? It is a Mossberg Maverick 88 is it easy to find? (I heard Mossberg 500 barrel works too)

If gunsmith job is the way to go... I live in Greater Vancouver area how much would it cost me for the thread job? I prefer local and don't have to mail the barrel. And who I can contact to get this done?

Or should I just don't do anything for now because none of these matters? (I shoot target loads now for they are the cheapest to find so far)

Thanks in advance.
 
X2 probably better to find another barrel. I tried to have a savage 24 threaded and was told by gunsmith not enough meat. Tried every ammo I could find for tighter patterns and found federal prarie storm really good. If you want tighter patterns try them. I get modified to improved modified patterns now from my cylinder bore with them.
 
I ran into a similar situation years ago when I cut a 870 down for my son. I put on a Youth stock and cut the barrel at 20 inches. I added a nice bead and it fit him nicely. Problem was that the pattern was a bit big.

I'd run into something similar many years ago and "fixed" it using a technique I'd read in an old Gun Digest. It was about how the old timers tightened up the pattern on their guns before they figured out a way to choke a barrel. They may even have been muzzle loading shotguns, don't remember. What they did was to back bore/hone the the bore a bit bigger from about 2 inches back from the muzzle to about the 5 inch mark. Since then I've done several, easily gain 1 choke. I just used a brake cyl hone, finishing off with an air die grinder with a polishing fixture. I believe what they used was a expanding reamer and removed about 5 thou or so and then polished the bore.

It's a shotgun, not a piano, use what tools you have.

" I quote a paragraph from the 1971 Gun Digest: “Another method of achieving tighter patterns in this period was to bore the barrel to as a true cylinder to the muzzle and then, starting back about an inch, bore the barrel out a few thousands for a distance of about 3 inches, This “recess” or “jug” choke system was especially popular at that time for it could be applied to existing cylinder bored barrels of guns already in use.”
 
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