Verona LX choke nightmare

[handofzeus]

Well I finally decided to start playing with chokes. Recently I talked myself into needing more than one choke for my old Winchester pump. I had to imerse myself in the basics since I didn't know much about choke at all. First I had to cross reference the correct model and as luck would have it the Winchesters take the Browning Invector.....cool, lots out there. Then came the realization that Invectors come in standard, Plus and DS!!! More research and looking at photos told me that the difference was in length with standard being the original and shortest, but to be more confusing you can get standard Invectors that are longer and protrude from the barrel as long as the Invector plus! These are in fact standard Invectors but called Extended and usually have a knurled grip to hand-thread. The key with figuring out your correct type is measuring the distance from the chamber end (thin end) of the choke to the threads. Again, Invector=short, Invector Plus=longer, Invector DS=longest. I used my newly gained knowledge and ordered a couple Invectors and voila, perfect fit.
With this new choke knowledge arrogance I then proceeded to research the type of choke needed for my I. Rizzini made O/U. Cross reference guide says Verona LX is the ticket, awesome! Although harder to find I located quite a few online and was about to make the purchase when I thought I might check out Ebay USA. Here's where my brain melted. There are piles of Verona LX style chokes listed with accompanying photos BUT as I scanned the pics I was seeing all sorts of different thread locations! Some were threaded at the chamber end, some at the muzzle end and of course just to really mess me up some were threaded midway!
After seeing this assortment of chokes threaded high, low and midway and all labelled Verona LX I can only conclude that measuring the distance from bottom of tube to the threads is the only safe way to buy the correct Verona.

 

[cosmic]

I think the name Verona was used by more than one italian manufacturer. To complicate matters, there are (were?) several members of the Rizzini family that were in involved in shotgun manufacture, F.A.I.R being one of them.

 

[handofzeus]

I think the name Verona was used by more than one italian manufacturer. To complicate matters, there are (were?) several members of the Rizzini family that were in involved in shotgun manufacture, F.A.I.R being one of them.

Correct. Two of the four use Verona but one is a complete mystery the 4th........?

 

[Falconflyer]

The Verona guns were made by FAIR { I Rizzini}, I’d check out they’re choke tubes to see if they fit.