any issues with cutting down O/U barrels?

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Looking to cut down a 26" O/U to around 18-20 inches. Will this be okay for slug use afterwards? I'd most likely have a smith do it if its a reasonably priced service. Im just wondering if its a straight forward job or if there are complications of some sort.

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you will be cutting below the choke, which will leave with cylinder in both tubes. that would be okay for slugs but if you wanted to have it bored and tapped for screw in choke tubes you would have to have a gunsmith check the wall thickness even for thin wall tubes. what do you mean by reasonably priced service?a gunsmith who knows what he's doing can square the cuts and remove the burrs to finnish your barrels. yes there may be some complications. the cheapest route in the long run is to consult a smith and have him do the job. replacement barrels ain't cheap, if they're available at all.
 
12magnum said:
what do you mean by reasonably priced service?a gunsmith who knows what he's doing can square the cuts and remove the burrs to finnish your barrels. yes there may be some complications. the cheapest route in the long run is to consult a smith and have him do the job. replacement barrels ain't cheap, if they're available at all.
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What I meant by "reasonably price service" is I'll have a smith do it if its not gonna cost more than the gun itself. We're talking about a cheap ($200-250) O/U here so if cutting the barrels is going to cost as much as the gun, then I'll just go at it myself.

As far as replacement barrels not being cheap... it really doesn't matter. The whole gun is cheap ;)
 
ok. then your not going to lose a lot.if you cut it yourself , be sure to remove any burrs left inside the muzzle of the barrels. i had one where a guy didn't, he fired a slug, and split the barrel back 1/2". good luck.
 
O/U's don't really take to being shortened well and they're expensive to begin with. O/U's, like SxS's, require a smithy who knows how to cut a double barrel. Not all double barreled shotgun barrels are joined over their whole length. Cut it and not be able to have the barrels joined properly will result in them not shooting to the same POI. Arib complicates the whole thing. They're not necessarily metal or attached over the whole length either.
You'd be better to find an inexpensive single shot without a rib and turn it into a slug gun.
 
And short doubles aren't accurate either. One may throw a slug high and right and the other low and left. That's what my father's coachgun does.

Longer double tubes are generally better at putting shots relatively close to each other...and even then it's not always that great.
 
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