Cutting Shotgun Barrels

[Mortblanc]

Every company is concerned with liability issues in this day and age. No one wants to be sued and I don't blame them.

However, there is another thread we just had here that speaks of firing all sorts of things up to an including frozen hot dogs from the shotgun and no one seems to be concerned with that, only with what I post.

And I will point out that I have a Carolson rifled choke tube made specifically for shooting slugs and other solid objects from a shotgun barrel and it has more constriction than any of my full choke tubes or my turkey X-full tube.

The use of the tight chokes is for just the situation you stated in the last paragraph. In a survival situation one will make their shots at stationary targets whenever possible. You are not wing shooting on the clays range. You want the shot tight and you want it consistent.

I want the shot in a pattern that is close enough that I can move it around like a bullet and use the sights to AIM the group. I also want the group tight enough that my shots at 50 yards will bring game to the table. I want to reach out and kill the bunnies while they are sitting at 40 yards, not on the run at 35. My survival shotgun applications all have sights of one form or another.

I do not even set my survival shotguns up for wing shooting. That is a completely separate category of firearm.

I do hunt with them, however. We hunt a lot of turkey over here and the requirements of turkey hunting are very similar to the needs of survival shotgunning. Big birds of 20#, large shot sizes, targets sometimes 60 yards distant, tight shot patterns, sights on the guns.

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If it is not for you or your situation that is fine. It simply shows the extent to which a shotgun can be tailored to a specific need or situation.

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And do note that in 30 seconds I can swap the barrels out and be shooting on the clays range. It is all part of the versitility of the shotgun