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Changing 12 ga barrels?

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Hickock45 has a video on YouTube called “mail order sawed off shotgun” where he does it with a Ped howdah & a 20 ga shotgun . I called one dealer but I’m still thinking it’s doable. I’ll check with a gunsmith that works with these things. I imagined someone here has done it.
 
Pedersoli has at least 3 different 12 gauge barrels in SxS configuration. The difference is in the overall OD, the taper and the ID. These were generational. Find a similar year of production and barrels will likely fit a different stock/action. I saw a really nice stock that may have been refinished. However, I like the choke tubes from my other 12. I switched the barrels and sold the plain barrels on plain stock to offset my cost. One serial # was 7000 something and the other 9000 something. Barrels swapped right out.
 
Pedersoli has at least 3 different 12 gauge barrels in SxS configuration. The difference is in the overall OD, the taper and the ID. These were generational. Find a similar year of production and barrels will likely fit a different stock/action. I saw a really nice stock that may have been refinished. However, I like the choke tubes from my other 12. I switched the barrels and sold the plain barrels on plain stock to offset my cost. One serial # was 7000 something and the other 9000 something. Barrels swapped right out.
 
I did pretty much the reverse of what Spark it off did, going from the screw choke barrels to fixed. I bought the extra barrel set from flintlocksetc.com (Richard Beauchamp) who had an impressive stock of pedersoli parts. I might have done better to simply buy another complete gun, and sell the Cabela's version compete as the barrels were around 2/3s the cost of a complete gun. I had to file the receiver for the fore end wedge on the barrel slightly to bring the barrels home on the fore end, and this allowed me to get a very snug fit.

Spark's comment about the different barrel profiles of different Pedersoli vintages is important. The older Pedersolis are delightful, light, upland guns.
 

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