Kinda scary short barrel question

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A co-worker of mine just bought a Maverick pump with a 28 inch barrel. Well he wanted a short barrel and called me to ask how short he could cut it. First I told him to spend a few bucks and just buy the barrel he wants, but he's an unpatient fellow and decided to take a hacksaw to it. To be safe he cut it to 19 inches, but of course the cut wasn't square so he cut it again to square it up, but it was still off, you get the picture. So he ends up with a 17 1/2 inch barrel. So I went over and seperated the reciever from the barrel and brought the reciever home with me. I didn't want the barrel here since I have a couple of mossies that I'm sure it would fit on. So now I'm trying to convince him to get rid of the barrel, put a new barrel on the reciever and he'd be good to go. Now if it were my barrel, I'd just take it to the local law fellows and tell them what happened, but for some reason he doesn't want to do that. I'm in this thing about as far as I care to be, but I was wondering about just chunking the thing in a river which is what he wants to do. Me, I'm against it, just because you never know where these things turn up again. Maybe I'm just overly paranoid.
 
18" is the legal minimum length. Tell him to get a new barrel, don't take a chance.
 
Well what he did wasn't too smart, but you don't have to chuck the barrel into the river. A gunsmith can SOLDER a sleeve on the end of it to bring it up to the required 18" length. This is legal so long as the sleeve can't be unscrewed and removed.

If you can find one, you can also have a Poly-Choke or Cutts Compensator put on the barrel.

In the future, if you can't have the job done in lathe (the right way) use a pipe cutter to get a square cut.

Advise your friend (and you) to go to www.brownells.com and order a catalog. A little knowledge goes a long way.
 
If you want to destroy it, cut it in-between the chamber and front mounting ring.
 
When sawing a barrel, go around the permimeter of it with the saw, not straight through it. I cut the barrel on my 870 this way, using a piece of masking tape as my guide and it came out perfect.

My suggestion, cut it so its square, then put a one or two inch length pipe on it and weld it in place, that way the barrel wont be a total loss.

You could even drill some "ports" in the barrel extension.
 
Best way to cut a barrel is with a inexpensive copper tubing cutter. It clamps on and you go around the barrel a few times ,and you have a perfect cut. Cost about 5 bucks at the local hardware store. PS. put one layer of masking tape where it clamps on so that the bluing does not get damaged.
 
There is no need to turn the barrel into a law enforcement agency just to dispose of it. If he just wants to get rid of it, take a hammer and beat it flat. Then it's just a useless hunk of metal. There is nothing illegal about destroying a part of a firearm or even destroying the entire firearm if that is what the owner wishes.
 
"I'd just take it to the local law fellows and tell them what happened, but for some reason he doesn't want to do that."

I'd suggest eating the barrel before taking it to the police. He might end up like the teacher with good intentions who accidentally takes a pistol to school and reports it to administrators only to get fired and prosecuted for being honest.
Seriously I would just permanently attach something on the end like a homemade compensator or design your very own shotgun flash suppressor.
 
Sledge-hammer it or you have yourself a felony.
 
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Problem solved

He decided to get a Winchester 20g that was already tricked out the way he wanted it. I'm going to buy the reciever off of him for $50 and cut the chamber in half. I figure I can pick up a barrel on ebay cheap and have yet another spare shotgun laying about.
 
Glad if worked out in your favor Okie...

There are some "types" of folks I pay attention to:

- Always pay attention to the elders -

-The folks with a bag of spare parts and tools.

-Folks that can quote Brownell's phone #...give part #'s off the top of head.

-The folks with a machine /woodworking shop.

- Folks going to move, marry, or divorce.

and...

- The impatient folks , with credit cards, hacksaws, and magazine articles with flowered shirted writers pointing guns at themselves. :D

Just toss the cash onto table next to the picture of tactical bling bling, they jsut gotta have- leave with antiquated firearm...hold estatic "yes"...until 3 blocks down the street. ;)
 
Not sure if it's really in my favor, since I haven't checked into the cost of a barrel yet, and I need another SG like I need a hole in the head. But I know a young fella who would like it and wouldn't mind mowing the grass a few times in return (he did it last year for my old 30-30, boy did I come out on top of that one).
 
Lucked out

I think... I found a barrel at a local pawn shop, some surface rust, but the bore looks good. Cost me $25. Not sure if that was a good deal or not, but it gives me something to do on my days off this week.
 
Destroy it ASAP, period, do not pass go, do not collect $200, IT IS A FELONY.

Put that hacksaw to use again and cut through the chamber, then throw it away.

Penny wise and pound foolish. Could have had 2 barrels...
 
It's a felony,

But it ain't my felony. I don't know what became of the barrel, I was going to destroy it, but when I went to buy the reciever , said barrel was gone. Now I've got a shotgun I'm not sure what to do with. The youngster I was going to give it to just bought himself an 870 with the money he got for his grades. I'm sure I can find some kind of advantage to having it.
 
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