Blue Red Label

5Screw · 01-09-2009, 09:59 AM

I have an older Red Label with the blued receiver. It has fixed chokes Mod/Imp. Would it be possible to add screw in chokes or are the barrel walls too thin?

Ruger Redhawk · 02-20-2009, 11:01 AM

Unless it's changed at Ruger I asked this same question to them years ago.I have a very early production 20 ga Red Label that's still unfired.Mine is choked SK/SK
When they came out with the screw in chokes I asked Ruger if the screw ins could be added to my barrels. At that time they were not able to or weren't offering such a thing.That may have changed by now.I wish I could tell you exactly what they said but after all these years all I remember was no they can't.

SPXtrader · 02-21-2009, 05:45 PM

Nice shotgun R Redhawk! I'd love to try it out at the range!

Iowegan · 02-21-2009, 08:08 PM

5Screw, Brownell's sells the tools to thread the barrels for chokes. The reamer is $120 and the tap is $180. After spending $300 on tools, you still have to buy a set of choke tubes ($42.50 each). Not a cheap project!

Ruger Redhawk · 04-08-2009, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by SPXtrader

Nice shotgun R Redhawk! I'd love to try it out at the range!

Thanks, maybe one day I'll give it a try at the range.I wish back then they made them with the screw in chokes. It has a nice looking Walnut stock but nothing really special in the figure of the stock.I bought it at a department store in S.FL that carried allot of long guns and ran ads in the local newspaper.Tells you how long ago that was.I had originally bought one choked in F/M.The manager agreed to take it back a day or so later and I got the SK/SK instead.Try doing that today LOL.

Jody Johnson · 04-15-2009, 06:23 PM

...you might give Briley Mfg Company a call...if anybody can do it ( I'd bet that they can )it'll be those guys!

They threaded some mighty thin bbls on a Browning skeet gun for me.

They're in Houston, TX

ducktail · 12-11-2009, 05:46 PM

I have heard about Briley doing it also.

Hairtrigger · 12-11-2009, 07:08 PM

you could probably sell yours and buy a newer one cheeper

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5Screw Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 11	Blue Red Label I have an older Red Label with the blued receiver. It has fixed chokes Mod/Imp. Would it be possible to add screw in chokes or are the barrel walls too thin?

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02-20-2009, 11:01 AM	#2
Ruger Redhawk Joined: Jun 2007 From: Southeastern USA Posts: 945	Unless it's changed at Ruger I asked this same question to them years ago.I have a very early production 20 ga Red Label that's still unfired.Mine is choked SK/SK When they came out with the screw in chokes I asked Ruger if the screw ins could be added to my barrels. At that time they were not able to or weren't offering such a thing.That may have changed by now.I wish I could tell you exactly what they said but after all these years all I remember was no they can't.

02-21-2009, 05:45 PM	#3
SPXtrader Joined: Feb 2009 From: SW VA Mountains Posts: 43	Nice shotgun R Redhawk! I'd love to try it out at the range!

02-21-2009, 08:08 PM	#4
Iowegan Retired Gunsmith Joined: Aug 2006 From: Blair, NE Posts: 4,501	5Screw, Brownell's sells the tools to thread the barrels for chokes. The reamer is $120 and the tap is $180. After spending $300 on tools, you still have to buy a set of choke tubes ($42.50 each). Not a cheap project!

04-15-2009, 06:23 PM	#6
Jody Johnson Joined: Oct 2006 From: Houston, Texas, USA. Posts: 424	...you might give Briley Mfg Company a call...if anybody can do it ( I'd bet that they can )it'll be those guys! They threaded some mighty thin bbls on a Browning skeet gun for me. They're in Houston, TX

12-11-2009, 05:46 PM	#7
ducktail Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 11	I have heard about Briley doing it also.

12-11-2009, 07:08 PM	#8
Hairtrigger Joined: Oct 2007 From: , Ohio, . Posts: 471	you could probably sell yours and buy a newer one cheeper