Beretta Series 70, shorter legal barrel?

[K-Roc]

Any rumors or info on if these handguns will ever ship with a shorter barrel? Not the 6 inch one? I do remember reading that eventually they would ship with a shorter barrel, did I imagine that lol?

I like the looks of this firearm, but lets be honest... it looks weird with the barrel that comes with it in Canada, it could be 2 inches shorter basically... OR has anyone shortened the barrel themselves to the shortest legal length allowed, how hard is that exactly? I have access to a shop, so in theory I could do it.

 

[dogzilla]

I think Badboybeeson (S&J) had some or was getting some in.

 

[WRH]

I thought BBB said they had to ship the 4.2" barrels back due to a manufacturing problem. I could be wrong though. I wanted one of these too.

As far as shortening the barrel, the hard part would be re-mounting the front sight. Cutting and crowning the barrel wouldn't be too difficult. You would have to mount the sight carefully since it has to slide through the notch in the front of the slide.

 

[K-Roc]

Yeah thats what I was thinking too... would just rather buy one with the 4.2 inch barrel

 

[K-Roc]

S and J appears to be out of stock of the barrels... gun looks so much better without that huge barrel lol... although the price was very expensive. $200 extra for the shorter barrel? Wow...

 

[heavenIsAlie]

decent gunsmith can do it for you, in fact someone many years ago made a thread with detailed pictures about him doing it homself

 

[K-Roc]

Would you mig weld the front sight back on or some sort of adhesive? JB weld? It might look like crap lol, I could prob do it, but not sure how it would look... will search and see if I can find an example. Thanks!