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I have a Mossberg 500 20 gauge, my girlfriend loves that thing but the tactical look I put on it look funny with the 24 inch barrel, I'd like to cut it down to the legal 18.5 inch limit (I have a second barrel that I'm going to leave full length, and if I ever take it hunting I'll be using a scope anyway so the missing front sight on the shorter barrel won't bother me.)
The barrel I'm going to be cutting down is the "slug barrel" basically its a 24 inch open choke barrel with rifle sights, it is not rifled it is smooth bore (if I hunt with it I'll most likely buy a rifled barrel anyway) so my question is:
Is there a specific way to do this?
I was just going to measure it out and carefully put tape around the barrel so I can see that my cut is perfectly round and then take a dremel to it VERY CAREFULLY and slowly work through the barrel, Leave some extra length so I can take a sander to it and round off the edges and make the muzzle smooth and carefully work on it until I can place it on a nice flat piece of wood and the barrel sits totally flat all the way around.
Is this a solid plan or is this a stupid thing to do and requires a real gunsmith to do? I figured a shotgun barrel would be able to take some "home made" modifications, I wouldn't try this on any rifle or rifled shotgun barrel.
The barrel I'm going to be cutting down is the "slug barrel" basically its a 24 inch open choke barrel with rifle sights, it is not rifled it is smooth bore (if I hunt with it I'll most likely buy a rifled barrel anyway) so my question is:
Is there a specific way to do this?
I was just going to measure it out and carefully put tape around the barrel so I can see that my cut is perfectly round and then take a dremel to it VERY CAREFULLY and slowly work through the barrel, Leave some extra length so I can take a sander to it and round off the edges and make the muzzle smooth and carefully work on it until I can place it on a nice flat piece of wood and the barrel sits totally flat all the way around.
Is this a solid plan or is this a stupid thing to do and requires a real gunsmith to do? I figured a shotgun barrel would be able to take some "home made" modifications, I wouldn't try this on any rifle or rifled shotgun barrel.