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darwinmauser

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Hi all, I bought a William Powell 12 gauge, the good, It cost me $400.00, the bad, someone sanded the stock and it now needs the cheqering recut, the ugly, the barrels have been shortened to 17 3/4 inches.

Does anybody know who could tig a new set of tubes onto whats there and regulate it?????
 
Maybe it's prohibited in Canada but over here it's quite legal ,I'm just trying to find someone who can do a major overhaul on the barrels without botching the job.
 
Tig welding on barrel extensions probably wouldn't be possible. This gun would however be a candidate for barrel sleeving, a process where the barrels are cut just ahead of the breech, the chambers honed out slightly and new full length tubes inserted into the chambers and finished.

This is specialist work and not cheap. In the U.K. the barrels would have to be reproofed and must have the word "sleeved" stamped on them.

In Canada the only gunsmith I know who advertises barrel sleeving is Precision Arms in King, Ontario.
 
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darwinmauser said:
Thanks for that Claybuster, thats the sort of info I need, I'll get in touch with them.:)
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You mentioned your short barrels are legal where you are. They are not legal here. Attempting to ship such a gun into Canada could create some serious problems at the border. I doubt the people at Precision arms would touch a gun with barrels cut below the legal minimum.

I'm not sure where you are located but you might want to take up the matter with William Powell directly.

http://www.william-powell.co.uk/
 
I not sure but if the gun is over 26 inches long it is a legal gun unless it is a semi. But the other solution if you are going to resleeve it is to cut the barrels off at the distance required to have the sleeves put in and ship them seperate from the action. This should work.
John
 
jiminthecorner said:
Hey CLAYBUSTER how does the backpacer 410 (10") get away with it???I think its only semi rifles that have the 18.5" rule no?? JITC
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If the gun is made with a shorter barrel BY A MANUFACTURER it is legal.

If the gun barrels were CUT to below 18.5" it doesn't matter whether it's a semi or something else.

It doesn't have to make sense. It's government policy.
 
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