Affinity 3 20ga pistol grip

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Affinity 3 20ga pistol grip

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Affinity 3 Compact 20ga with a Mesa Tactical Urbino (M2 12ga) stock. Just an option for anyone wanting a short LOP pistol grip. Part number on Mesa Tactical website that I used is 91500 (Limbsaver recoil pad).
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Welded a threaded extension onto the Franchi stock bolt nut so it would extend thru the molded plastic washer in the Urbino. Also drilled out the Mesa Tactical supplied Benelli shim so it would mate up to the Franchi shim for a zero twist fit.
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To smooth things out on the side sling attachment points, I taped, etched, filled with JB Plastic, and then cleaned it all up with a Dremel tool. I’m a little OCD so I also used painters tape to cover the receiver and built up the stock a little at the junction with JB Quick. Once cured, I smoothed it up with Dremel.
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Finished close ups after the Mossy Oak Vinyl.
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Excellent job! Looks beautiful
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Very nice...looks great!!!
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Looks awesome. What choke you got on the end of that head thumper?
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blake101307 wrote: February 24th, 2021, 7:57 am Looks awesome. What choke you got on the end of that head thumper?
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hoobilly wrote: February 24th, 2021, 9:30 am [quote=blake101307 post_id=214233 time=<a href="tel:1614171440">1614171440</a> user_id=5342]
Looks awesome. What choke you got on the end of that head thumper?
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Looks awesome. What choke you got on the end of that head thumper?
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KyKRAZEE wrote: February 19th, 2021, 2:09 am Very nice...looks great!!!
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thats a slick looking gun
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Just purchases a Franch Affinity 3 20 gauge. Does anyone know the diameters of the XF and XXF factory chokes? Also, does anyone know if TSS #9 can be shot through these chokes. I saw written on the XXF not to shoot steel through it. I assume that since this gun is marketed as a “Turkey gun” that TSS is fine. Anyone using these factory chokes to hunt turkeys?
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pspangle wrote: October 3rd, 2021, 6:53 pm Just purchases a Franch Affinity 3 20 gauge. Does anyone know the diameters of the XF and XXF factory chokes? Also, does anyone know if TSS #9 can be shot through these chokes. I saw written on the XXF not to shoot steel through it. I assume that since this gun is marketed as a “Turkey gun” that TSS is fine. Anyone using these factory chokes to hunt turkeys?
Has to be a few shooting factory choke with tss. But I’ve sold a lot of the Indiancreek 555’s for those guns
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I loaded some of Hal’s recipes and I got a great pattern using the factory XXF choke out to forty yards with one of his recipes. In fact, it might be a tad tight for me for close birds. I may have drop down to the factory XF choke but I am a happy camper.
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just bought a box of 25 nitro tss #9's in the 20 gauge 3 inch 0nly to find out indian creek is out of stock of the black diamond strike 555 they recommended for my son's Franchi. Anyone try any other choke tubes with this combination? Read somewhere a Carlsons did well.Thanks
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My affinity does well with the Carlson’s .575. Excellent hunting pattern
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Thanks for the reply
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Mine too, apex #9
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That’s a nice job on the gun
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Danny1030 wrote: February 13th, 2021, 3:22 pm To smooth things out on the side sling attachment points, I taped, etched, filled with JB Plastic, and then cleaned it all up with a Dremel tool. I’m a little OCD so I also used painters tape to cover the receiver and built up the stock a little at the junction with JB Quick. Once cured, I smoothed it up with Dremel.

Would this work on a 12 gauge model as well? 3” chamber
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Do you by any chance still have the compact stock?
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Would love to do this on my stoeger but unfortunately I live in a democratic state that doesn't allow that on a semi
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duckslut wrote: June 5th, 2022, 7:00 am Would love to do this on my stoeger but unfortunately I live in a democratic state that doesn't allow that on a semi

A Democrat state but definitely not democratic.
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Why would anyone want to hunt turkeys with a "by definition due to the pistol stock" assault weapon? Wake up people! This is what we are dealing with, and if you don't think that it doesn't affect you, YOU ARE SORELY MISTAKEN!
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Chrmayo wrote: April 29th, 2022, 12:29 am Do you by any chance still have the compact stock?
Yes but keeping it.
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You did a real good job on that gun work. It looks great.
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