Browning Citori/ Polishing Fixed Choke Barrels

[Longshanks]

Had some work done on my Citori. Parkerizing and they polished the shell chambers along with some sort of polishing on the barrels. Noticed looking in the barrel under light I can see some really fine swirls/scratches from the polishing. Being a fixed choke gun I don't want to do allot of polishing/removing material. My gunsmith tells me it will not effect the way it patterns. Have not shot the gun yet. Any thoughts?

[deadbuck]

Show us some pics please.

[Longshanks]

Show us some pics please.

Traveling, don't have the gun with me.

[allaboutshooting]

Had some work done on my Citori. Parkerizing and they polished the shell chambers along with some sort of polishing on the barrels. Noticed looking in the barrel under light I can see some really fine swirls/scratches from the polishing. Being a fixed choke gun I don't want to do allot of polishing/removing material. My gunsmith tells me it will not effect the way it patterns. Have not shot the gun yet. Any thoughts?

Some of the finest barrels made on commercial guns are found on Browning guns. In reality nothing is needed, nor should be done with the exception of cleaning. Polishing chambers is especially undesirable since they are made to keep the fired hull in place.

Thanks,
Clark

[Longshanks]

Had some work done on my Citori. Parkerizing and they polished the shell chambers along with some sort of polishing on the barrels. Noticed looking in the barrel under light I can see some really fine swirls/scratches from the polishing. Being a fixed choke gun I don't want to do allot of polishing/removing material. My gunsmith tells me it will not effect the way it patterns. Have not shot the gun yet. Any thoughts?

Some of the finest barrels made on commercial guns are found on Browning guns. In reality nothing is needed, nor should be done with the exception of cleaning. Polishing chambers is especially undesirable since they are made to keep the fired hull in place.

Thanks,
Clark

Yea, I'm not sure why they did what they did. Looks like the swirls I see stop at the choke in both barrels. When I look from the breech end it's like I'm looking at a mirror finish. I guess my best bet is shoot the gun and see if it still patterns and operates ok. Clark, is it safe to shoot LB's out of a fixed choke? I hear of folks shooting Fed HW 7's as well out of fixed chokes?

*looking through some old shells to shoot through the gun and found 3 boxes of the Remington 4x6 duplex. Those were the shells my dad hunted with the last turkey season before he passed. He would have been amazed by these new shells. I believe I was hunting with Activ nickle plated at that time. That brought back some memories.

[allaboutshooting]

Clark, is it safe to shoot LB's out of a fixed choke? I hear of folks shooting Fed HW 7's as well out of fixed chokes?

It should be. They have lead pellets that would be much softer than the steel in the barrel. The resin that they use is supposed to fracture upon upset and just turn into another form of buffer, so it should be just fine.

Thanks,
Clark

[Longshanks]

Clark, is it safe to shoot LB's out of a fixed choke? I hear of folks shooting Fed HW 7's as well out of fixed chokes?

It should be. They have lead pellets that would be much softer than the steel in the barrel. The resin that they use is supposed to fracture upon upset and just turn into another form of buffer, so it should be just fine.

Thanks,
Clark

Thanks Clark, going to test the LB's out of the more open chokes. According to browning my chokes are .685/.705. Should be interesting.

[L.F. Cox]

Had some work done on my Citori. Parkerizing and they polished the shell chambers along with some sort of polishing on the barrels. Noticed looking in the barrel under light I can see some really fine swirls/scratches from the polishing. Being a fixed choke gun I don't want to do allot of polishing/removing material. My gunsmith tells me it will not effect the way it patterns. Have not shot the gun yet. Any thoughts?

Barrel polishing is over rated....

With my experiences with an O/U as a turkey gun I'd be more concerned with how low the bottom barrel was shooting.

[Longshanks]

After looking closer at the gun when I got home..I was wrong about the chambers being polished. They are actually parkerized. The blemishes I see in the barrels are where the chambers stop and the barrels start and where the barrels meet the fixed chokes. Wondering if these are blemishes from the factory or build up of some kind. Who knows? Not me that's for sure. Just gonna take the gun out and do some old school patterning with Pb and then see if the Longbeards will wake the old Citori up. .685/.705 should open up the LB's but turn better patterns than XX, HV, and Super X. Any Citori owners out their with the 1975 or so year model?