cutting down barrels....

ok, if i cut down a shot gun barrel and it is still at or over the legal limit is that legal or does the barrel have to come from the factory in the length i am looking for?

reason i ask is i want an 8 shot magazine with my mossberg 500, but the only way to do this is with a 28 inch barrel. it is for home protection, so i want to try to keep it as short as possible...

thanks.
Grant

So long as the barrel is 18" or more measured from the breechface, you can do whatever you want, however you want, with the rest of the barrel.

I hear True Value is having a sale on hacksaws.. :)

define breech face for me. is that the part of the breech that the round seats in on the primer end, or on the nose end of the shell...

im just getting into shotguns... lol

measurement procedure is the same as for rifles.

to check any shotgun, cut yourself a dowel 18" long, close the action, drop the dowel down the bbl. if its sticking out, you either paid $200 extra for it or you are in violation of the law.

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Originally Posted by deth502

measurement procedure is the same as for rifles.

to check any shotgun, cut yourself a dowel 18" long, close the action, drop the dowel down the bbl. if its sticking out, you either paid $200 extra for it or you are in violation of the law.

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cool... thanks!