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Joined: 08 Feb 2009 Posts: 1531 Location: Western WA

Needing a 28 ga for skeet, I’m considering 28 ga Briley tubes for the 16 ga Citori. Question: Will the lightweight Briley tubes make the gun feel excessively barrel heavy? The Citori is 6.5 lbs. Alternative is tubing a 12 ga Beretta 686.

Any remarks welcome.

TIA
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Joined: 09 Dec 2012 Posts: 935

This made me curious to go look at what Briley offered. Unless I am wrong, won't you have to ship the gun to them to have them fitted ? The drop in tubes are only for 12 ga.

With shipping and insurance there and back, the cost of the inserts (699 std, 799 lightweight), if you could find a reasonable priced, low use used Citori 28 ga, would that be a better option?

Just curious, because in my perusing who has what, I saw a used Citori White Satin in 28 ga for sale.

Member Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 3524 Location: Illinois

Buy a couple of flush tubes and not look back.

Member Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 2543 Location: West MI

Since feel is a personal objective sorta thing....Reverse engineering the (possible) weight of full length 16ga/28ga tubes at ~0.40lbs ea. (or ask Briley for weight) do you have or can you find a material...oak dowel rods, aluminum tube or bar, etc. to approximate the weight and put them in your barrels for an approximate in hand balance comparison?

IF #0.40ea....3/8" AL solid round rod (Menards, HD, Lowes) is ~#0.13/lin' 28"=#0.3, hold them in place w/some modeling clay each end to approximate the (added) weight of the belled muzzle & chamber ends of a Briley tube & you'd have your in hand comparison.

Joined: 31 Jan 2017 Posts: 21 Location: Western PA

I do have Briley light weight 410 and 28 ga tube sets for my 16 ga. 525 Citori. They do make it feel muzzle heavy, so I added some weight in the stock to balance it out. I like the feel of a somewhat muzzle heavy gun for skeet. When I’m shooting without the tubes for skeet, I have a clamp on 8 oz barrel weight that I put on about 3” in front of the forend, that makes it balance about the same as with the tube sets in. With all the added weights, or tubes, the gun is around 8.5 lbs. I leave the weight in the stock all the time. I use the 525 for trap and some sporting clays too (without the barrel weight). It’s my “go-to” gun.

Joined: 13 Oct 2015 Posts: 441

Tubing a 16ga removes all 16ga-ness, so there is zero value in using that as your carrier unless it is your best fitting/shooting gun, and seversl negatives.
Tubes in 12ga 682 are more common, probably cheaper and faster to get, easier to sell, probably sturdier, keep you from having to jack around with your 16ga weight and balance. Tubes in your 16ga removes it from being shot as 16ga... 12ga who cares, you probably have another good one.

Intalling, removing, cleaning the tubes is just enough of a pain that ot will likely decrease the availability of your 16. Here is a motto for you: "Keep the Sixteen, pristine! Don't overweight what's already Great! 28 is 682 backwards, and you leave that 6 all alone!"