My brain does funny things sometimes.....

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sometimes my brain goes funny places when I go for a walk and today while going though some really thick young spruce trees watching grouse scurry away within about 5 yards of me I had a idea for a VERY compact bushgun, I would start with a Boito hiker "but that's already compact enough" you may say but of course if things came perfect from the factory then I would have very little fun so no I must modify it, my plan would be to first remove the butstock,saw it off leaving only a pistol grip and then carve a piece of wood that would extend from the bottom of the pistol grip along the bottom of my forearm(permanently attached of course to stay legal) ending in a strap that could be strapped over the forearm securing it in place thereby keeping the overall length the same yet allowing it to be fired with one hand much like the rossi ranch hand or something of the like. So what do you guys think?! I feel it would be fun little project ending with fairly fun and useful little shotty albeit somewhat "mad max" or something but cool nontheless.
BTW if this violates any laws feel free to call me a fool but I see no problems as long as the extension if properly and permanently attached.
Thanks,
Hunter.
 
The funny thing is , grouse hunters have been making light, fast pointing, short barreled guns for many,many years. None of them look like that. What ever floats your boat
 
The Criminal Code Part III Section 84(1) defines a hand-gun:

“Handgun” means a firearm that is designed, altered or intended to be aimed and fired by the action of one hand, whether or not it has been redesigned or subsequently altered to be aimed and fired by the action of both hands.

If you carve a break shotgun down to a pistol grip, and it already has a really short barrel (Boito Hiker), it's totally a one-hand gun. It's going to look practically like a T/C Contender pistol, or more closely a H&R Handy Gun, both Restricted fire-arms.

You're skirting pretty close to the line. I know it would have an extended butt brace, and you could *probably* get away with it for a long time, but I'm pretty sure there's no Non-Restricted FRT entry to fall back on like the Grizzly shotguns and mare's leg rifles.
 
red_bailey said:
If you carve a break shotgun down to a pistol grip, and it already has a really short barrel (Boito Hiker), it's totally a one-hand gun. It's going to look practically like a T/C Contender pistol, or more closely a H&R Handy Gun, both Restricted fire-arms.
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Are you talking about the H&R Handi Rifle? http://www.hr1871.com/firearms/rifles/handirifle.asp
It's not restricted.

My suggestion would be to leave the factory stock alone, and then make your own, with the brace integrated into it rather than something that can be viewed as removable.
 
Pretty sure you won't get much fan fare from anyone here. We've been through the pistol grip break action crap before about 2-3 years ago and it wasn't much of a hit then and won't be now. Like someone already stated if you want to wreck the gun than cut the original stock. I guess you missed the days of the "winchester survival back pack zombie killer".

Junk in my opinion, oh and you asked for it too so there it is.
 
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