Cut down with an old hacksaw and a $5 plastic miter box from home depot. Walt Frear installed the bead
Pretty clean cut... you done did good.
Cut down with an old hacksaw and a $5 plastic miter box from home depot. Walt Frear installed the bead
It's not a useless reply. Shotguns must have a barrel length of at least 18" to be considered legal without falling under a Class III classification. I'm guessing you may not realize this perhaps? It's only been that way since 1934.
Here's some light reading for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/shotgun-firearm-subject-nfa
On a side note, maybe it's not the best thing to announce that you are preparing to create an illegal shotgun that can earn you prison time on a public forum.
That's not a joke.
Well , since this was Shotgun forum , and not NFA forum , no proactive mention of Stamp or SBS/ AOW , that would make it questionable , or setting us up for a HaHa .
Cut down with an old hacksaw and a $5 plastic miter box from home depot. Walt Frear installed the bead
ETA; yes I have a stamp for it.
Yeah... I don't get why everyone jumps on the illegal bandwagon right away. It is perfectly legal to do... you just need the tax stamp before you do it. OP has been here a long time... he is neither a fool nor a criminal.
Us 13ers have to stick together.
Well , since this was Shotgun forum , and not NFA forum , no proactive mention of Stamp or SBS/ AOW , that would make it questionable , or setting us up for a HaHa .
BGOS in real time.
Possibly much ado could have been avoided if you'd been forthcoming with that in your initial post. I know I would have been - it's never safe to assume that people know what is or is not legal with gun laws. You merely asked a very basic question with no other context other than you wanted to chop an 18" shotgun barrel down to 10", which would make it illegal.Cut loose great. A side by side is apparently much easier to make pretty and perfect than a tapered 870 barrel.
You better have a stamp or these stamp police will show up at your house. (And I'm not talking about the ATF!)
With nothing else to go on, you can't blame the members of this forum for raising an eyebrow, questioning it, and trying to educate you on a subject that up until now you appeared to be ignorant of.Any recommendations for a place to chop my REM 870 barrel from 18" to 12" and install a bead? Possibly port it as well.
I wear it with pride, my friend.
Home Depot or Lowes for a hacksaw.
JB Weld for the bead.
Not a joke. Why would it be? I want to SBS a shotgun and want a smith to install a new bead for me. Figured they might as well cut it too to ensure it's not off kilter at all. With the barrel tapering it's easy to screw up.
Did my OP say I was doing this without a stamp? Why is it so many people here assume "that's illegal!" before asking questions.
I've been reading about Vangard. I was told by a local smith that Briley is good as well. Just wanted to hear if anyone had any other good recommendations.
OP:
If you shorten the barrel, you may want to consider using a pipe cutter from home Depot instead of a hacksaw (pipe cutters are about$20) it is much easier to get a square cut than with a hacksaw and a miter.
a little Emory cloth or a sanding block to clean up the cut, and then cold blue.
Most likely a pipe cutter won’t cut through a steel barrel as they are designed for copper.
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I have used a pipe cutter for a shotgun barrel. Since it's designed to cut pipe, it doesn't make a square-faced cut. It leaves an inward-tapered edge that you'd need to file or sand flat. Not that hard if you're careful.
Possibly much ado could have been avoided if you'd been forthcoming with that in your initial post. I know I would have been - it's never safe to assume that people know what is or is not legal with gun laws. You merely asked a very basic question with no other context other than you wanted to chop an 18" shotgun barrel down to 10", which would make it illegal.
This is the very first thread posted in it's entirety - absolutely no mention of getting an NFA stamp.
With nothing else to go on, you can't blame the members of this forum for raising an eyebrow, questioning it, and trying to educate you on a subject that up until now you appeared to be ignorant of.
I've read a few accounts of the pipe cutter 'spiraling' down the barrel instead of making one cut. The outside of the barrel is tapered so the pipe cutter just makes a mess.
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