Shotgun with choked, cylinder, and rifled barrel, 20 gauge

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Still waiting for the PAL, been doing some window shopping in the mean time. Hoping to get my hands on a 20 ga shotgun, looking for one that has all three barrel configurations - a choked barrel for target shooting with birdshot (and perhaps hunting small game), a short cylinder bored barrel for "close-range purposes", and a rifled barrel if I wanted to start hunting deer.

Not a lot of selections for 20 gauge, the closest I can find is a Mossberg 500 combo with accu-choked barrels and a rifled slug barrel, but no cylinder bored barrel :(. Any suggestions, or should I give up on a 20 gauge and get more variety with a 12 gauge?
 
I did a little bit of shopping myself, and I found that the cylinder chokes usually are not included in choke packages, you can buy separate. The short "close range" barrel is the one that has by default the "cylinder" profile.
 
I wouldn't loose any sleep over the lack of a cylinder barrel. In fact I would rather have a 18-24" turkey barrel that is threaded for chokes. I am not sure what your "close range purposes" are, but choke tubes are often a great feature to have in any barrel that isn't a rifled slug barrel.
 
JamesM said:
I wouldn't loose any sleep over the lack of a cylinder barrel. In fact I would rather have a 18-24" turkey barrel that is threaded for chokes. I am not sure what your "close range purposes" are, but choke tubes are often a great feature to have in any barrel that isn't a rifled slug barrel.
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I want to reload and shoot roundballs, not sure if IC is big enough to let one through the barrel without blowing. Can I shoot roundball through a rifled shotgun though? Leading issues or what not.
 
No lead ball will bother any steel barrel. You making them? Just curious.
You can get 18.5" rifle sighted, smooth bore with no choke(that's what a cylinder choke is), 20 gauge, M500 combo's.
No reason you can't shoot a round ball through a rifled barrel. BP rifle shooters do it all the time. Accuracy suffers at long range(about 100 yards is long range), but that's not an issue. Suspect finding a .615"(20 ga. bore diameter) round ball might be though.
 
sunray said:
No lead ball will bother any steel barrel. You making them? Just curious.
You can get 18.5" rifle sighted, smooth bore with no choke(that's what a cylinder choke is), 20 gauge, M500 combo's.
No reason you can't shoot a round ball through a rifled barrel. BP rifle shooters do it all the time. Accuracy suffers at long range(about 100 yards is long range), but that's not an issue. Suspect finding a .615"(20 ga. bore diameter) round ball might be though.
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Yea, I been checking out reloading posts on the web, pretty neat the things reloaders create themselves. I might order a Lyman 20 gauge mold when I go down south for vacation. I don't suppose bullet molds require an import permit, do they? I read elsewhere that a slightly undersized RB in a plastic wad would shoot fine out of a smoothbore or rifled shotty barrel, so I guess that's my answer.
 
safehunter said:
A 18.5" cylinder bore barrel can be made from something used off the EE. Keep an eye on the shotgun parts forum.
Score slugs from ammo supply are very accurate IMHO. Buy a case.
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can you literally just cut off the choke end of a longer barrel? don't you want to have it done on a lathe or something, to make sure it is nice and flat and even? or is it really just not a big deal with a shotgun? i imagine that with shot it isn't as important, though i'd think you'd want the wad to exit cleanly and squarely, or your whole pattern may be off to one side? but with slugs or balls, i would suspect you'd want it to be pretty darn square, or you're going to be off to one direction, no? would be great to know, as i've got a semi-damaged barrel that i wasn't sure what to do with... would be cool to cut it down and use it for screwing around...
 
This sounds like a recipe for a disaster . The difference between imp CYL & CYL is about 5 thousands of a inch so it will have no effect on your round ball .round balls are very in accurate because the density varies plus they are never truly round . Buy a good guality 20 ga with choke tubes and shoot good quality factory slugs through a imp CYL or modified choke which ever gives the best accuracy and let the Internet nut bars blow themselves up .
 
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