albertaoutlaw
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- Location
- Calgary, Alberta
I have a Yilditz sxs shotgun, with long barrel. I had the barrel cut to 18" for the shotgun to be my bear defence gun on horseback/hiking.
However I was not thinking straight when I did so and now of course the patterning is very bad. I realized later that the ends of a shotgun barrel are very important in maintaining point of aim and I seem to have ruined the utility of the shotgun.
At 25 yards, shooting buckshot, the left barrel shoots patterns about 2-8 inches left and the right barrel shoots patterns 2-8 inches right. Slugs shoot about 3-4 inches left and right of point of aim respectively.
My question is this: can the barrel after it has been sawed off be gunsmithed or repatterned to correct and re-centre the point of aim ? If the answer is yes who does such work ?
However I was not thinking straight when I did so and now of course the patterning is very bad. I realized later that the ends of a shotgun barrel are very important in maintaining point of aim and I seem to have ruined the utility of the shotgun.
At 25 yards, shooting buckshot, the left barrel shoots patterns about 2-8 inches left and the right barrel shoots patterns 2-8 inches right. Slugs shoot about 3-4 inches left and right of point of aim respectively.
My question is this: can the barrel after it has been sawed off be gunsmithed or repatterned to correct and re-centre the point of aim ? If the answer is yes who does such work ?