Defender barrel interchangeability
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:31 pm
I just bought a standard Defender, and I really like the gun....except for the non-choke cylinder bore. It shoots 4 foot patterns at 20 feet with target loads.
Anyway, I called Winchester and asked if the Defender Extreme choke-threaded barrel would fit my standard defender, and was told it would not fit..which seemed odd to me since they appear to be virtually identical guns, other than a few bells and whistles.
When I asked which barrels they sold for my defender, he said they had a 26" and 28" barrel (both threaded for chokes) that "would fit all defender models". When I asked him to clarify that, he said yes....according to his info, those barrels would fit all of the defender models.
So by now, I'm smelling something that belongs in a pasture. When I asked him politely to please explain how two barrels would fit all defenders, but a barrel from one defender wouldn't fit another one...the CS rep got defensive and basically said "I don't know, but that's what everything I have says".
I find it hard to believe that they would machine an entirely different barrel for the extreme, rather than just adding threads for a choke to the standard barrel. I find it even harder to believe that two barrels interchange with one that doesn't.
Anyone have any insight into this?
Anyway, I called Winchester and asked if the Defender Extreme choke-threaded barrel would fit my standard defender, and was told it would not fit..which seemed odd to me since they appear to be virtually identical guns, other than a few bells and whistles.
When I asked which barrels they sold for my defender, he said they had a 26" and 28" barrel (both threaded for chokes) that "would fit all defender models". When I asked him to clarify that, he said yes....according to his info, those barrels would fit all of the defender models.
So by now, I'm smelling something that belongs in a pasture. When I asked him politely to please explain how two barrels would fit all defenders, but a barrel from one defender wouldn't fit another one...the CS rep got defensive and basically said "I don't know, but that's what everything I have says".
I find it hard to believe that they would machine an entirely different barrel for the extreme, rather than just adding threads for a choke to the standard barrel. I find it even harder to believe that two barrels interchange with one that doesn't.
Anyone have any insight into this?