Bond Arms Snake Slayer as a dedicated shotgun.

[delta duck force]

This question is intended for the smiths out there. Is it possible to make a Bond Arms Snake Slayer into a dedicated shotgun? We all know that rifling scatters shot. What Im thinking is boring out the rifling but I want to take it a step further than that, what about adding a choke? I know it would probably be tricky and expensive to try to pull off screw-in chokes so I was thinking pressed-in chokes would be fine. Im not asking for a miracle out of the gun, just looking to tighten the pattern some. Obviously, this would make it useless as a .45 LC gun but I dont care. I want a decent, small-sized shotgun for canoeing and backpacking that I could use to harvest close range game such as grouse or squirrels.

My dad has a Snake Slayer with a 3.5" barrel and it does pretty decent out of the box out to 30 or 40 feet. Im thinking of purchasing one with the 4.25" barrel and having some work done to it in an effort to double the effective range, maybe out to 60 or 70 feet (20 yds or so). Thoughts?

 

[rule303]

Keep in mind, as soon as the barrel isn't rifled you have created an NFA weapon and need a tax stamp. But, yes a smoothbore .410 handgun is capable of small game duty out to 20 or so yards. The .45/410 is already an oversized bore, with no forcing cone, drilling it out would make it even worse. Never heard of pressed in chokes? A better option is to have T/C type screw in tubes installed in the factory bore. A short portion of rifling is left in the bore, not so much for effect, but to avoid the NFA status.