Rough idea on gunsmith cost to cut down coach gun?

[wooderson]

Been looking at a 12 or 20-gauge coach gun for fun and defense lately. Ruled out the Norincos on principle, the CZ Durango and Hammer Coach are nice but pricy... down to the Stoeger and Remington/Baikal Spartan line.

Of those I like the Spartans - but their single-trigger models only come in 26" or 28" barrels. Does anyone have a rough idea about what a gunsmith might charge to cut one down to 18.5-20"?

(Trying to decide if it would be more cost effective to save a little longer for the CZ or jump to the Stoegers instead.)

 

[buck460XVR]

do you have anything against double triggers?

 

[6_gunner]

The guy at my local gun shop charges around $30 to cut down a barrel, reposition the front sight and smooth the cut marks. Maybe a little more for a double, because there's twice the metal to cut and file smooth.
This isn't something you would need to go to a high-dollar gunsmith for.

 

[ArmedBear]

Hacksaw.
File.
Sandpaper.
Perma-blue.

Maybe some banjo music for the stereo while you're doing it.

Better solution: buy the Stoeger. And get the double triggers. More reliable. One thing you NEVER want in a defensive shotgun is inertia triggers!

I like the Stoeger better anyway, though the new Spartans are less vile than they were a couple years ago. I prefer Stoeger's stock. They're used a lot for Cowboy Action, so you can have them tuned up to be really good, reliable guns, too.

 

[Oohrah]

Cutting doubles can run into problems as most are sodered ribs and barrels.
Same, run into problems with hot blue jobs with barrels and ribs parting.
Best to buy with the barrels that length. Most are 20" Have one of the first
Rossi Coach gun, 12Ga with 3" chambers with outside hammers. Don't believe
they make them any more, but there may be some used ones around!

 

[pauli]

it's not on the website apparently, but remington does make (or made) an spr210 cowboy - single trigger, 20", no hammers, choke tubes. there's at least one on gunsamerica.

they actually use a picture of it on the spr210 webpage, despite not listing specs for it.