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Fiber Glass Barrel

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#1 ·
A couple weeks ago my Grandfather showed me a Remington semi-auto 12 gauge that belonged to his father. It has a fiberglass barrel. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks,
Chris.

P.S. Sorry for putting this thread in the wrong place before.
 
#6 ·
there is a guy in Cal. that makes them about 6' long and ports the last two feet. he uses them for pest geese, shoots farther and quieter, and is not a suppressor per ATF. its been in Popular Mechanics and Farm Show. He says its a take off of the Winlite style.
 
#8 · (Edited)
Winchester 59 article:
http://www.gunshopfinder.com/articles/winchester59.html

And it's not actually fiberglass, but a very thin steel barrel wrapped in fiberglass thread (something like 10,000 miles or some extreme length of thread).
I think may have been the first shotgun with choke tubes.

Every one I've seen, which isn't many, had a pretty battered looking barrel. They had bumps and gouges and generally looked awful, so I'm guessing they were pretty soft and easy to ding up in the field.
 
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