reasonable wait times for a gunsmith?

[u/Stevko_1]

I dropped off an shotgun barrel back in December to have it threaded for chokes and it still hasn't been done yet. I called about 2 months ago and he said was really busy and hadn't gotten to it yet and he would call me when its done. is this a normal wait time these days?

[u/shooptydoop]

Hope it wasn't a nice/obscure shotgun barrel. I've hard some horror stories from friends where they dropped off their gun at a gunsmith where they cannibalized your parts to finish an overdue build and wait for new parts to show up. The issue is when the parts are on backorder/hard to source which ends up in these long delays and they pray you don't just ask for the gun back. In your case at least it is just a barrel - I assume the smith wasn't dumb enough to lose it/use it for another customer's build.

[u/Stevko_1 → u/shooptydoop]

Just an 870 barrel