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Got a sx3 I want to get worked on for turkey season after I check a Briley choke that came with it. Was going to send it to rhino but have heard good stuff about rob Roberts turkey gun work. Any info?

I have read great reviews of Ron over on the Refuge. I'd love to send him a gun to work over (forcing cone work mostly). Just haven't made it a priority.

He did barrel work and a choke for my SBE1 and it shoots great. He lengthen my forcing cone, ported the top of the barrel, and a choke. The first choke he sent was way to tight(scared I would miss) so he sent me another one to try. The porting is great...almost no recoil at all. The recoil on my SBE1 is so minimum.... it will not eject most 3' shells and will hang up on some 3.5'' duck loads, but it works great on 3.5' turkey loads. With this setup....90-95% of my pellets are inside a pie plate at 40 yards.

Avoid Rhino like the plague.

Rich Cole, Rob Roberts, Angleport all do good work. Rich does not make chokes, but is otherwise one of the best all around gunsmiths in the US. Briley does good work, but you will WAIT for it.

GulfCoast wrote:Avoid Rhino like the plague.

Yep. Had a crappy experience with them on a turkey gun. They alternated telling me they didn't receive it, couldn't find it, it was in the mail, etc. Finally got it back after a significant period of time longer than "Joe" said it would take.

I will vouch for Rob he has it down to a science. He has worked on most all mine and my hunting buddies guns. From Benelli's to my SX3. Done a great job on all of them.

I had the the same thought last year with my x3, but a friend of mine told me about Sumtoy custom chokes. William really knows his stuff and guaranteed my satisfaction. I was amazed at the performance vs my previous choke. Got 338 pellets in 10" circle at 40 yds shooting 3.5 Nitro 4X5X7. Second place were the winchester XR 6's at 294. Note that these are counts of shooting at a 10" circle and not moving the circle around to get max count.

Does porting the barrel make that significant of a difference? And what bad happened w rhino to avoid them? Had good luck out of another fun w a rhino choke.

Trappey wrote:Does porting the barrel make that significant of a difference?

Supposed to decrease muzzle rise. Shooting the big boy turkey loads, there should be a noticeable difference.

my 835 was ported. tbh i couldn't tell much of a difference. but then again, i didn't have any scientific evidence of it, other than it still kicked like a rented mule when i shot it at a target