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Have an chance to purchase a browning over under that comes with a set of briley tubes to change the gauge. Don't know much about tubes any help you guys can give me would be a big help.
Thanks
Badluck
What to look for? How they work? Do they do any damage to gun over time. there effect on accurency? Etc... It is a used gun so what to look for as far as the tube that it will come with. Are they worth the extra $$$ to get shotgun with them. I have all so heard that some shotgunners feel that it is "cheating" becuase your are not shooting a different gun but the same one you always shoot?
I guess just some basic stuff and some opinions on them.
Thanks
What to look for?
How they work?
Do they do any damage to gun over time.
there effect on accurency?
Etc... It is a used gun so what to look for as far as the tube that it will come with.
Are they worth the extra $$$ to get shotgun with them.
I have all so heard that some shotgunners feel that it is "cheating" becuase your are not shooting a different gun but the same one you always shoot?
The tubes do exactly what they say they do. They make a 12 guage into a .410/etc by having one end of the tube fit into the breech and the other end sticks out the muzzle bypassing the barrel. It's like having 2 guns in one.
They generally don't stick out the muzzle. On mine, they actually end about a quarter inch from the muzzle and are actually a full inch from the end of my extended chokes. They can be made flush and most fitted tubes are flush with flush chokes.
Not sure what you mean
They fit inside the barrel and let you shoot smaller gauges in the same gun
They do not damage the gun. There are many skeet shooters out there with guns well over 100K rounds using tubes with no issues other than normal wear of the action.
Negligible
Make sure the 20 gauge tube chambers aren't cracked
If you use them. I shoot skeet competitively so I use my tubes all the time. I sometimes shoot 12 and 20 gauge events using the 28 gauge tubes.
95+% of competitive skeet shooters use them.
They generally don't stick out the muzzle. On mine, they actually end about a quarter inch from the muzzle and are actually a full inch from the end of my extended chokes. They can be made flush and most fitted tubes are flush with flush chokes.
the only down side... is that they do tend to add weight to the gun and can shift the center of gravity.
So even though you are shooting the same gun, it will hold swing and feel a little different. It may be very noticable or negligible depending on the gun the tubes, etc.
If I had unlimited resources, I would prefer mutliple guns in different gauges, but, that is not always possible or realistic..